Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.