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.

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.

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

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.