Writing a novel is agony.
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.
Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.