When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.