“Difficulty is a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

“We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel”

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

“All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.”

“One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.”

“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.”