Love without sacrifice is like theft.
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.