“Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.”
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity”
“I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.”
“Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.”
“Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.”
“We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.”