If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.