Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

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.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.