Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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.