The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.