I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.