I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.
I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women
It was scary. But it was so liberating. I thought, This is not predetermined - I get to choose. There are some days where I have to choose five times in a day. I had to make a choice when you called and the phone rang, whether I'm going to show up and be me, or whether I'm going to say what I think I'm supposed to say and get off the phone.
And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh — but smile no more.