Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.