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

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.