Success will ruin your life.
Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.
She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl