Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

Wolves have no kings.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will