Though Life's Tuition Is Always Ruinous, Inexorably

I Don't See How Anybody Starts A Novel Without Knowing How It's Going To End. I Usually Make Detailed Outlines: How Many Chapters It Will Be And So Forth.

Tis E'er The Lot Of The Innocent In The World, To Fly To The Wolf For Succor From The Lion.

More History Is Made By Secret Handshakes Than By Battles, Bills And Proclamations.

The First Obligation Of The Writer Is To Be Interesting. To Be Interesting; Not To Change The World.

I Particularly Scorn My Fondness For Paradox. I Despise Pessimism, Narcissism, Solipsism, Truculence, Word-play, And Pusillanimity, My Chiefer Inclinations; Loathe Self-loathers Ergo Me; Have No Pity For Self-pity And So Am Free Of That Sweet Baseness. I Doubt I Am. Being Me’s No Joke.