The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?