“Fame is a form of misunderstanding.”

“Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.”

“Fame is a form - perhaps the worst form - of incomprehension.”

“Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion and lies, if not ambition. Also, fame was reductive. Everything that ended in fame and everything that issued from fame was inevitably diminished. Fame's message was unadorned. Fame and literature were irreconcilable enemies.”

“To be envied, admired, is not a feeling. Nor is fame it feeling. There are feelings associated with fame, but few of them are any more enjoyable than the feelings associated with envy of fame.”

“Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.”