where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Isn't it pretty to think so.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.