I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.