Forgiveness, the future, rules for writing

Forgive everyone for everything.
~ Advice

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
~ W. Somerset Maugham