It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.