Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of the second rate." I'm sort of haunted by that.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.
You say true, I say thankya.