Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.