I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.

For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

You need to put it all down in writing so everybody is on the same page, everybody understands,

No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy.