 We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. |
| That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. |
| Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. |
| You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. |
| Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! |
| Small things amuse small minds. |
| In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. |
| It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. |
| I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. |
