“Writing is like paying myself a formal visit…”

“Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.”

“Anybody who would like to have a long life and make his subsistence expanded, should pay visits to his own relatives.”

“This…is why screenwriting pays so well. They don't pay me to write. I'd write for free. They pay me NOT to punch people in the neck.”

“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.”

“Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.”

“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”

“Paying visits to ones own relatives prolongs the life of a person and prevents poverty and indigence.”

“Goodness to parents, and paying visits to ones own relatives, will ease the accounting on the Day of Judgement.”

“A sin that accelerates death and annihilation of man is breaking off paying visits to one's own relatives.”