“…a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes–for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one’s life.”

“If you can quit, then quit. If you can’t quit, you’re a writer.”

“Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.”

“We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.”

“Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.Drizzt Do’Urden”