See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.