Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.