I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism. " If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.
First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.
The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.