The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

The money-god has no place in the temples of literature.

Security is always excessive until it's not enough.

Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.