When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

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

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.