Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Man knows much more than he understands.
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.
Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.
Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.
every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.