"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

"Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have."

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't try to make it popular. Don't try to make it like anything else. Instead, let it be your own. A wild, untamed thing."

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones which can be given neither a name nor any real description…"

"The true way goes over a rope, not stretched aloft but close to the ground. It seems intended more to make one stumble than to be walked upon."