Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.
Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.