I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.
The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?
It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.