What counts most is holding on. The growth of a train of thought is not a direct forward flow. There is a succession of spurts separated by intervals of stagnation, frustration, and discouragement. If you hold on, there is bound to come a certain clarification. The unessential components drop off and a coherent, lucid whole begins to take shape.

Total innovation is a flight from comparison and also from imitation. Those who discover things for themselves and express them in their own way are not overly…

Originality is not something continuous but something intermittent - a flash of the briefest duration. One must have the time and be watchful (be attuned) to c…

Flaubert and Nietzsche have emphasized the importance of standing up and walking in the process of thinking. The peripatetics were perhaps motivated by the sam…

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it …

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

'The road to you is long, and I've been on it for a while'