I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.