When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.