Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.