Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

Man is not made for defeat.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

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