“Be the author of your own horoscope”

“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”

“Queen Victoria - I thought gags were things that were put by authority into people's mouths.
D'Oyly Carte - These gags, your Majesty, are things that people put into their own mouths without authority”

“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”

“Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, [but] every character is an extension of the author's own personality.”

“Responsibility is the cornerstone of awakening. Essentially, what responsibility is, is owning your own life. To become responsible is to step into this ability and chose to both create and respond to your life instead of to passively react to it as if it is happening to you. It is stepping into authority over yourself.”

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

(, 1964)”

“Why is self-control, autonomy, such a threat to authority? Because the person who controls himself, who is his own master, has no need for an authority to be his master. This, then, renders authority unemployed. What is he to do if he cannot control others? To be sure, he could mind his own business. But this is a fatuous answer, for those who are satisfied to mind their own business do not aspire to become authorities.”

“You are the author of your life, the inventor of your future, the agent of your intentions.”

“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”