You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.