The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."
Solitude is to the spirit what diet is to the body.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the will to act in spite of it."