“[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.”
“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
“Writing isn’t my life…it’s a lovely part of my life... but it’s not my life. My life is family, friends, fishing, food…things like reading and painting and all the rest of it, and you can’t really prioritize when you’re involved with family or you’re involved in fishing, you can’t say, ‘Oh, I really should be writing.”
“It’s just life. You can’t beat life.”
“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”
“Well, I’ve learnt this much: it doesn’t matterwhat it costs, it’s worth paying the price. You can’t live cheapand you can’t live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you’vepaid it, that’s what I reckon.”