"The desert teaches patience, and patience is the essence of good storytelling."
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
Money and success don't change people, they merely amplify what is already there.
Poetry must always have a moral purpose; it should instruct while it delights.