If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.