I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Success will ruin your life.
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.
Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.