Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.
Old age makes caricatures of us all.
The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.