It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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.