It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

It's the thinking that gets you killed.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.