No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism..

And hold up to the sun my little taper..

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship..

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship..

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence..

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.].

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.].

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition..

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna l….

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not co….

If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the pa….