Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness

Everyone is still waiting for the book that everyone greets as the big literary book. People thought it would be a strong year for fiction but it hasn't turned out that way.

emotion without action is irrelevant.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it