“I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.”

“Anything unusual that you can produce has quadruple, quintuple the value, precisely because your opponent is likely to do the predictable stuff, which is on a computer.”

“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”

“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!”

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”

“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

“You can think: I have scored once, it’s enough,” he said. “You can lose focus, start freestyling. Or you can think I have scored once, so maybe I can score another. Is one enough, or do you want more? You need the button.”

“It is inherent to the human condition to admire precisely what you do not understand.”

“If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.”