To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.