Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

History is littered with dead good men

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else