All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.