“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

“And every one of us has to face that day;
Do you cross the bridge or do you fade away?
And every one of us that ever came to play
Has to cross the bridge or fade away.”

“The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.”

“The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.”

“Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.”

“Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.”

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

“Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge”

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”