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

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

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.