The Point Is To Be Good-to Be

If You Are A Genius, You'll Make Your Own Rules, But If Not - And The Odds Are Against It - Go To Your Desk No Matter What Your Mood, Face The Icy Challenge Of The Paper - Write.

To Put Failure Behind You, Face Up To It.

Perhaps It Would Be Better Not To Be A Writer, But If You Must, Then Write.

One Of The Delights Beyond The Grasp Of Youth Is That Of Not Going. Not To Have An Invitation For The Dance, The Party, The Picnic, The Excursion Is To Be Diminished. To Have An Invitation And Then Not To Be Able To Go -- Oh Cursed Spite! Now I Do Not Care The Rottenest Fig Whether I Receive An Invitation Or Not. After Years Of Illusion, I Finally Decided I Was Missing Nothing By Not Going. I No Longer Care Whether I Am Missing Anything Or Not.

No Matter How Piercing And Appalling His Insights, The Desolation Creeping Over His Outer World, The Lurid Lights And Shadows Of His Inner World, The Writer Must Live With Hope, Work In Faith