War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.