No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Nationality isn't soul.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.