The invention of printing originally promoted mutual understanding. In the era of graphomania the writing of books has the opposite effect: everyone surrounds himself with his own writings as with a wall of mirrors cutting off all voices from without.
    Milan Kundera

It is not enough to go on for ever acquiring experience. Life is too short for that, there comes a time when one should produce; if one were to die acquiring experience, where would be its profits?
    Charles Péguy