I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.
I'm the top of the food chain and well. . . you're the food.
God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note.
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.