We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.