There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.