I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

Vale más partir del cliché que llegar a él.

Any one may mouth out a passage with theatrical cadence or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts. But to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task.

I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.

To tell the truth, I myself never quite feel that I know what I am talking about — if I did, and when I do, the thing written seems nothing to me. However, what I do write and allow to survive I always feel is worth while and that nobody else has ever come as near as I have to the thing I have intimated if not expressed. To me it's a matter of first understanding that which may not be put to words. I might add more but to no purpose. In a sense, I must express myself, you're right, but always completely incomplete if that means anything.

I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Trying to avoid clichés helps life become fresh again, helps us remember what life is about in the first place. -Fingerprint.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

I speak the truth not so much as I want, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.