The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not. (James Salter)

The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.

James Salter

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