You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

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.

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.

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Fashions in sin change.