"It was strange how easy being tired..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”

“Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.”

“The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.”

“Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.”

“In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and they were all taking these pills to keep themselves awake, to work these incredible hours in this all-night place. And so the waiters, when they'd see the musicians falling over with tiredness or with drink, they'd give you the pill. You'd take the pill, you'd be talking, you'd sober up, you could work almost endlessly - until the pill wore off, then you'd have to have another.”

“I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.”

“Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.”

“You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.”

“I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.”