One's Fantasy Goes For A Walk And

Life Is A Tragedy Full Of Joy.

To Any Writer: Teach Yourself To Work In Uncertainty. Many Writers Are Anxious When They Begin, Or Try Something New. Even Matisse Painted Some Of His Fauvist Pictures In Anxiety. Maybe That Helped Him To Simplify. Character, Discipline, Negative Capability Count. Write, Complete, Revise. If It Doesn't Work, Begin Something Else.

You Could Not Pity Anything If You Weren't A Man; Pity Was A Surprise To God. It Was Not His Invention.

We Can't All Be Friends And Relatives As The World Is; Most Of Us Have To Be Strangers.

I Write A Book At Least Three Times-once To Understand It, The Second Time To Improve The Prose, And A Third To Compel It To Say What It Still Must Say.