"Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

“An index is a great leveller.”

“To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.”

“I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.”

“I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.”

“If you have the guts to follow the risk...if one follows what I call one's "bliss" - the thing that really gets you deep in the gut and that you feel is your life - doors will open up...if you follow your bliss, you'll have your bliss, whether you have money or not.”

“The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.”

“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”