It Takes Courage To Know When You

No Man Leaves Where He Is And Seeks A Distant Place Unless He Is In Some Respect A Failure.

You Don't Fight To Protect Warships Or Old Men. Like The Book Says, You Fight To Save Your Civilization. And So Often It Seems That Civilization Is Composed Mainly Of The Things Women And Children Want.

A Poet Sees Things In Two Ways: First, As A Child Who Never Saw It Before, And Second, As A Dying Man Who Will Never See It Again.

I Am Always Interested In Why Young People Become Writers, And From Talking With Many I Have Concluded That Most Do Not Want To Be Writers Working Eight And Ten Hours A Day And Accomplishing Little; They Want To Have Been Writers, Garnering The Rewards Of Having Completed A Best-seller. They Aspire To The Rewards Of Writing But Not To The Travail.

All I Can Do Is Play The Game The Way The Cards Fall.