I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

Before you quit, you have to try

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.