The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. - T. H. White

The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.

"The best cure for grief is learning".

The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.

There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws that are constant. It has no rules.

I suppose one has to be desperate, to be a successful writer. One has to reach a rock-bottom at which one can afford to let everything go hang. One has got to damn the public, chance one's living, say what one thinks, and be oneself. Then something may come out.