If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done to you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.