Character is fate.

Everything in life is writable.

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.

Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.