Simon Mills (November 14, 2005) "Top Table", The Daily Mail.
"Je ne parle pas français," http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mansfield/bliss/bliss.html#francais from Bliss and Other Stories (1920)
Variant: I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it.
Context: I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it. You can't get it into shape; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
"A Word to the Wise Guy"
The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985)
“If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.”
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
Paul Auster, Man In The Dark, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 63.
Man In The Dark (2008)
Quoted in "The Military Quotation Book" (2002) by James Charlton, p. 60
