Life is a long lesson in humility.
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.
Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
We are all failures - at least the best of us are.