Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
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.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.