Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.