Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.