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.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.