People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.