If The Sad Truth Be Known, Writers,

The Best In Art And Life Comes From A Center - Something Urgent And Powerful, An Idea Or Emotion That Insists On Its Being. From That Insistence, A Shape Emerges And Creates Its Structure Out Of Passion. If You Begin With A Structure, You Have To Make Up The Passion, And That's Very Hard To Do.

Whatever You Think Matters - Doesn't. Follow This Rule, And You Will Add Decades To Your Life.

Anytime You Make A Person Into Something Other Than Himself, You Make A Monster.

Slum Kids Die Slowly, Their Lives Eroded At So Languid A Pace That Even They Would Have Trouble Tracing The Disintegration. To The Children Of War Death Explodes Like A Car Bomb.

Do Not Keep Company With People Who Speak Of Careers. Not Only Are Such People Uninteresting In Themselves; They Also Have No Interest In Anything Interesting. . . . Keep Company With People Who Are Interested In The World Outside Themselves. The One Who Never Asks You What You Are Working On; Who Never Inquires As To The Success Of Your Latest Project; Who Never Uses The Word Career As A Noun -- He Is Your Friend.