We always start from zero. There is no preconceived idea.
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake.
Where reality (existence) is reasonable, all reasonable (presence) is realistic.
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.