You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.
Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.
Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.
Nothing great ever came out of common sense.
The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.
Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.