"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"

"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

"Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem."

"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."

"Wisdom principle 49 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 49."

"Wisdom principle 81 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 83."