When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime. That is why the true warrior cannot speak of battle save to his brothers who have been there with him. The truth is too holy, too sacred, for words." -Suicide (Gates of Fire)

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

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

When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.