Always Behave As If Nothing Had Happened,

Time Is The Inexplicable Raw Material Of Everything. With It, All Is Possible, Without It Nothing. The Supply Of Time Is Truly A Daily Miracle, An Affair Genuinely Astonishing When One Examines It.

If You Imagine That You Will Be Able To Achieve Your Ideal By Ingeniously Planning Out A Timetable With A Pen On A Piece Of Paper, You Had Better Give Up Hope At Once.if You Are Not Prepared For Discouragements And Disillusions; If You Will Not Be Content With A Small Result For A Big Effort, Then Do Not Begin. Lie Down Again And Resume The Uneasy Doze Which You Call Your Existence.

You Can Turn Over A New Leaf Every Hour If You Choose.

The Test Of A First-rate Work, And A Test Of Your Sincerity In Calling It A First-rate Work, Is That You Finish It.

Essential Characteristic Of The Really Great Novelist: A Christ-like, All-embracing Compassion.