I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.