“Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new…program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.”

"Carmel Point"
Context: Now the spoiler has come: does it care?
Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide
That swells and in time will ebb, and all
Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine beauty
Lives in the very grain of the granite,
Safe as the endless ocean that climbs our cliff. — As for us:
We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident
As the rock and ocean that we were made from.

Theatre Arts magazine, June 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=9ENNAAAAYAAJ

Pelle moras! Brevis est magni Fortuna favoris.
Book IV, line 732
Punica

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Calcutta: Two Years in The City (2013)

Source: Kitchen

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Context: He must be a poor creature that does not often repeat himself. Imagine the author of the excellent piece of advice, "Know thyself," never alluding to that sentiment again during the course of a protracted existence! Why, the truths a man carries about with him are his tools; and do you think a carpenter is bound to use the same plane but once to smooth a knotty board with, or to hang up his hammer after it has driven its first nail? I shall never repeat a conversation, but an idea often. I shall use the same types when I like, but not commonly the same stereotypes. A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations.

Source: Mind is a Myth (1987), Ch. 4: There Is Nothing To Understand

As quoted in Return of the Portable Curmudgeon (1995), edited by Jon Winokur, p. 290