All The Mistakes I Ever Made Were

Self-deception Is Sometimes As Necessary A Tool As A Crowbar.

Boredom Is The Keynote Of Poverty - Of All Its Indignities, It Is Perhaps The Hardest Of All To Live With - For Where There Is No Money There Is No Change Of Any Kind.

I Have Always Understood The Unbelieving Look In The Eyes Of Those Whom Success Touches Early - It Is A Look Half Fearful, As Though The Dream Were Still In The Process Of Being Dreamed And To Move Or To Speak Would Shatter It.

Without Vanity A Writer's Work Is Tepid, And He Must Accept His Vanity As Part Of His Stock In Trade And Live With It As One Of The Hazards Of His Profession.

Boredom Is The Keynote Of Poverty — Of All Its Indignities, It Is Perhaps The Hardest Of All To Live With — For Where There Is No Money There Is No Change Of Any Kind, Not Of Scene Or Of Routine. To Be Able To Break Out Of Its Dark Brown Sameness.