The moment we want to believe something we suddenly see all the arguments for it and become blind to the arguments against it.

It took away from the nerves a little bit.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can as you go along.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long, and the age of the great epics is past.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.