A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.
It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.
If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.