I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind.

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.