“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”

“Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.”

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”

“the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.”

“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.”