Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.
John SteinbeckWith a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.
John SteinbeckWhen you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book โ to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.
John Steinbeck