Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.

I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes; in hospitals and forests and abbatoirs. For some folks death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

You shine like a beacon in a dark world.