Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.

What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

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.

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

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.