“It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.”

“Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.”

“It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?”

“Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.”

“Sometimes it's just easier to go along.”

“It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.”

“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”