Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

You can make anything by writing.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.