Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?