Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.