the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

Success is a great healer.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.