“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracian (Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ (January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and writer. His proto-existentialist writings were lauded by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.)”
“How fast the stream flows from January to December!”
“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.”
“A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.”
“The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores.”
“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.”