Writer quotes

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

For a moment, nothing happened.Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.