If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I never let school interfere with my education.