Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.