Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.