"If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior, and you will make your own luck."

“It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love”

“Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.”

Source : Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1942). “Never Come Morning”, p.295, Seven Stories Press

“We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.”

“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”

“The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the body and makes the soul the slave of the body. And on the contrary, one who does not spare the body will not be disturbed in whatever he does by apprehensions born of blind love of life. How fortunate is one who is trained to this from childhood!”

Source : "Raising Them Right: A Saint's Advice on Raising Children".

“The main thing is not to be dead.”

Source : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

“The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On him alone is bestowed, by the bounty of the Creator of the universe, the power and the capacity of acquiring knowledge. Knowledge is the attribute of his nature which at once enables him to improve his condition upon earth, and to prepare him for the enjoyment of a happier existence hereafter.”

“I'm following a real event and real people.”