For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

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

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.