"None shall rule but the humble,And none..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I admire answers to which no answers can be made.”

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”

“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.”

“In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.”

“Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.”

“Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.”

“If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?”

“We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.”

“Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.”