I was neat$$$ clean$$$ shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.

In the worst of circumstances$$$ the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.

[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.

The proof of the pudding is the eating.

Finally$$$ from so little sleeping and so much reading$$$ his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune$$$ and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

What a woman tells her lover in desire should be written out on air & running water.

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named therethat$$$ it seems to me$$$ is created.