Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.
Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.
If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.
I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life doing this, I've trained myself to do the opposite of what's human nature, and that is to recoil from things I don't like.
The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.
Then you've a hunch what the music meant. . . hunger and night and the stars.
But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?