In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.