Small improvements, consistently applied, lead to massive change over time.
Loneliness is not the absence of others, but the absence of oneself.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.