The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.
Philip RothEverybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.
Philip Roth