“Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting.”

“Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.”

“I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.”

“…it can hardly be over-exaggerated that speculative thinking is always drawn from the necessities of the time, that it is always practical, that it always shifts with the interests of the times, with the changes of social, economic, and political conditions, and finally, that it is vain to hope to find an eternal, fixed, and immutable system of philosophy, and still hope for progress. A fixed system is applicable only to a dead society.”

“It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.”

“Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.”