We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

Religion is the opium of the poor.