To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.
Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.
The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.