Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.

Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

True enjoy stories never ever have endings.