No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs.
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
You are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know.
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
I often reread books I have written.
The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.
Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Bücher haben Ehrgefühl. Wenn man sie verleiht, kommen sie nicht mehr zurück.
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
I shall be but a shrimp of an author.
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
