The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you get.

"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so."

"Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity."

"If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it."

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.