Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.