“The things I never said are waiting somewhere-like the things I wanted to do and never did.”
“I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.”
“I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.”
“He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.”
“I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.”
“I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.”