That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.