I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.