Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.

It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.

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.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.