We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.