For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.