Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and feel your character as a person and then put yourself into that person's mind, place and time. Trying to stay in that person, place and time is a challenge when surrounded by this very different world of the 21st century.

Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

When the Lakota leader Sitting Bull was asked by a white reporter why his people loved and respected him, Sitting Bull replied by asking if it was not true that among white people a man is respected because he has many horses, many houses? When the reporter replied that was indeed true, Sitting Bull then said that his people respected him because he kept nothing for himself.