Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.

It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. Our living experience at those meeting points is one of the charged dramatic fields of fiction.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.