Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
If money does not make you happy, give it back
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.
There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.
For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of all when this is done in matters relating to divine worship and the glory of God.