A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.