“never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.”
“I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.”
“Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
“You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.”
“You will be late for your own funeral.”