Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

I can write pretty much anywhere.

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortés'll lay Tenochtitlán to waste again, and later, Ewing will sail again, Adrian'll be blown to pieces again, you and I'll sleep under the Corsican stars again, I'll come to Bruges again, fall in and out of love with Eva again, you'll read this letter again, the sun'll grow cold again. Nietzsche's gramophone record. When it ends, the Old One plays it again, for an eternity of eternities.

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.