If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.

Styles in wit change so.

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.