Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
To try to be better is to be better.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.