He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!

Writers perform the so-called counterfactual thinking all the time. All the time. For most people, counterfactual thingking is a habit, but for writers, it is a necessity

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

The difference between poverty and prosperity is the mindset of living out of necessity instead of possibility.