A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it ought to be.
When you follow your heart or your gut, when you truly follow the things that feel right to you and the things that you love, then you can never lose.
A good novel should be both a mirror and a window.