Initiative is at the heart of manhood
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.
What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.
Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
Doubt is faith's shadow.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.
Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.
I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.