“Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.”

“Writing is a passion, to write you simply have to just let it flow and get on with it!”

“Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.”

“Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?”

“There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”

“Although the United States, with its unit banking laws, had thousands of bank failures, Canada, which permitted branch banking, didn't have a single failure during the Great Depression.”

“Where, as again Vaughan writes, the liberated soul ascends, looking at the sunset towards the west wind, and hearing secret harmonies.”