What we get when we turn pro is, we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had… - Steven Pressfield

"Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

The Mammoth we attacked was not Rommel's after all. [...] Rommel himself, we'll learn later, was not in that camp and never had been. At the time of our raid, he was with the 15th Panzer Division, somewhere west of Kidney Ridge, in the thick of the fighting at El Alamein.

Better to be in the arena getting stomped by the bulls, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.