Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.