The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
You can’t be afraid to take a loss. The people who are afraid to take a loss are the ones who get killed in this business.
"Literature is the mirror of society, reflecting its virtues and vices with equal clarity."
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.