I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.

The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.