I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it.

In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.