One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing thin… - William Somerset Maugham

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.'

Well, as my mother was a whore, and my father a drunk, I daresay I don't miss much.

You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.