Like many humourless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
