“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”

“...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It is valuable to you, as well as to those you are to rub shoulders with. 'You are finite,' time tells you in a voice of boredom, 'and whatever you do is, from my point of view, futile.' As music to your ears, this, of course, may not count; yet the sense of futility, of limited significance even of your best, most ardent actions is better than the illusion of their consequence and the attendant self-satisfaction.”

“Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.”

“An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.”

“And geography blended with time equals destiny.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.”