Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.