As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

My mistake was in ever opening the books.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.