I'm not a hero; I'm a survivor.
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."