“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
“Your desire to advise other people, grows in line with your perception...that assumes you're wiser than them.”
“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you.”
“None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.”
“…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…”