'Nothing is wasted as is the existence of ordinary men.
There is only the juice and the action and death.
Only the blaze and the life.
To lose is to die, and if not to die, then to take injury leading toward death.
And death concentrates the mind.
Unvarying confrontation with it, the only method of authentic living.
Only the artist can feel it as such the whole time.
Hand to hand combat with fate.
It all leading from something else because only that which matters most can do;
Death as a method of living

All you have, the lot, before and now and after, the real gambler, the real artist, it is risked every time, and it is accurate living; the will to live burns most intense only in the moments of unchecked creation, or in winning at the highest possible stake.'