“To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.”
“It is the only life I care about—to write, to go out occasionally and ‘lose myself’ looking and hearing and then to come back and write again. At any rate that’s the life I’ve chosen.”
“Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.”
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
“This girl who equally drove me crazy and made me care about her more than I should. She was the only one who understood. The only one who could help make what I was more bearable, even if she occasionally tortured me in the process.”
“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”