frustration Quotes

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Writing bores me so.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.