Don't count your check-ins before they cash.
Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.
To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.
Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.
A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.