The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
Not everyone can be an orphan.
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.