The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever

Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.