There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
I'd learned my lesson.