Fear comes with middle age.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.