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If you expect nothing from somebody, you are never disappointed. Sylvia Plath

“Only when you do not know yourself, the opinion of other people becomes important.” Sadhguru

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original...

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. Walter Bagehot

“Sometimes we don’t want to be tethered to yesterday. It’s nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from childishness or childish things. Or maybe it’s...

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain

“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.” Steven Wright

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.” Junot Diaz

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. Eleanor Roosevelt

I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into...

Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.’ Justine Skye

People are like books: some deceive you with their cover, and others surprise you with their content. Oscar Wilde

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. Doug Larson

I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall - like seeking love in a whorehouse. Susan Sontag