You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.