Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
Live as if you were eternal.
He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.