“Long works are too often like long sermons which end in fatigue.”
“They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.”
“There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.”
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
“A sermon should be like a woman’s dress. Long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep your attention.”
“She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.”