Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

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.

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

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Styles in wit change so.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.