“A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.”

“Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.”

“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.”

“Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.”

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.”

“Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet but because most people can't count above fourteen.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”