What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
“It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.”
“For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.”