Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Every advantage has its tax

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Thework will teach you how to do it.