Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

All is foreseen but the choice is given.