Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)

Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?