Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.