What fools call ‘wasting time’ is most often the best investment.
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done to you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
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.
No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.
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.