Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.