friends
Wear a smile
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
~ George Eliot
The ideal life
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
~ Mark Twain
Writing is like sex
Writing is like sex. First, you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
~ Virginia Woolf