In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.
Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. The years pass and one has only one life. If one has a thing at all one must do it and keep on and on and on trying to do it better.
... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?
Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.