Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.