Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

Religion will never show the way.

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

There's no love without pain.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]