Writing is a way of being in the world, a way of understanding it and making it understandable to others.
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
History is always written by the victors, but the truth often lies in the silence of the defeated.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.