There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

I must play the instrument I've got.