I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

[as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of the book as it is opened and closed in normal use. When the sections needing correction are too thick, paste the pages together being careful not to smear portions of the book not intended for correction.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.