“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”

“Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.”

“People say: "Don't bite off more than you can chew."I say: "Bite off and chew madly!”

“Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell.”

“Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.”

“Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn't a trick, was to take up at once the thing you saw and the reason you saw it as well; to always bite off more than you could chew, and then chew it. If it were self-indulgence for him to cut and polish his semiprecious memories, and yet seem like danger, like a struggle he was unfit for, then self-indulgence was a potent force, he must examine it, he must reckon with it.”