No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.