You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.