Don't confuse honours with achievement.
It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.
She loved you in the morning because the day was new.
Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.
We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.