The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Hunger is good discipline.