Man is not made for defeat.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

Live it up so you can write it down.

A cat has absolute honesty.