Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

Did you ever have a sister? did you?