When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
“I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.”
“The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.”