“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”

“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.”

“For introverts, the best associations start with ideas. If you don’t feel a part of your neighborhood association or the happy hour regulars after work, don’t force it. The community that surrounds you may not be your community.”

“An event may be small and insignificant in its origin, and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its center an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.”