“A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.”
“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”
“As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and keep an objective eye on the reader.”
“An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.”
“If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.”
“For he lives twice who can at once employ,The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.”