“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”

“I avoid looking at the clock, fearing the slow passing of time that will only seem slower if I watch its progress.”

“Just because things happen slow doesn't mean you'll be ready for them. If they happened fast, you'd be alert for all kinds of suddenness, aware that speed was trump. "Slow" works in an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there's plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you'll always be slower.”

“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.”

“Choose an author as you choose a friend.”