“Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”
“a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.”
“Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.”
“People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.”
“Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.”
“The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes”