“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”

“There are those to whom one must advise madness.”

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

“Never cut what you can untie”

“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”

“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”

“How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.”