We Love Those Who Know The Worst

But There Is Much To Be Said For Giving Up ... Grand Ambitions And Living The Most Ordinary Life Imaginable.

Before, I Wandered As A Diversion. Now I Wander Seriously And Sit And Read As A Diversion.

Genius Consists Not In Making Great Discoveries, But In Seeing The Connection Between Small Discoveries.

Why Is It That One Can Look At A Lion Or A Planet Or An Owl Or At Someone's Finger As Long As One Pleases, But Looking Into The Eyes Of Another Person Is, If Prolonged Past A Second, A Perilous Affair?

What Is The Nature Of The Search? You Ask. Really It Is Very Simple, At Least For A Fellow Like Me; So Simple That It Is Easily Overlooked. The Search Is What Anyone Would Undertake If He Were Not Sunk In The Everydayness Of His Own Life. This Morning, For Example, I Felt As If I Had Come To Myself On A Strange Island.