I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.