There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.