History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.