Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.