What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying