Write to please yourself, and you will please a part of the people a part of the time. Every good thing has been rejected and jumped on by the glibsome party with overweening faith in his own omniscience. I am today what I am because I was yesterday what I was. Hypocrites sometimes tell the truth -after all, accidents do happen. If you do not know what to say, don't say it.
Distinctions are transient and trivial.
Behind all differences of opinions there lurks a grinning Mephisto. The best way to learn to write, is to write. Success is a matter of outliving your sins. Solitude is the only thing that can hold the balance true. Self-esteem is a good thing, but not when you carry a pedestal under your arm ready for instant use.