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

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

It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

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.

Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.