“Sometimes, the inessential is essential.”
“Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention”
“There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.”
“Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential. ”
“Failure is a stripping away of the inessential.”
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”