“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.”

“To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.”

“As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.”

“To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.”

“You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.”

“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.”

“A Person spends a whole day, five days a week or more, working hard to make money, but few ever think beyond this fact. They live from pay cheque to pay cheque, drifting through life, and only real...”

“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.”

“If there is one thing I can pass on from my humbling experiences in life, thus far, I will tell you this, the next time someone tells you "the absence of expectations is the absence of disappointme...”

“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have...”

“Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got ...”

“Sacred soul has indomitable strength.”