Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity.
Referring to British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin:
I'm very grateful that I don't have to wear heels, because I can barely walk in heels. If I were to skip, it would be deadly.
Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.
Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.
I fell down in Hyde Park with a friend who'd had a hip operation, and neither of us could get up again. People must have thought we were a couple of drunks rolling around and walked on by.
[Referring to George W. Bush:] He's got ideas on every subject and they all change with the weather.
Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.
A committee is an animal with four back legs.
Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.
It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.
Stability is not the way of the world.
His opinions are like water in the bottom of a canoe, going from side to side.
Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.
But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.
Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
