Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

Genius requires an audience.

To my surprise, Joscelin rose. ‘Phedre-’ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. ‘Phedre yields with a willow’s grace,’ he said softly. ‘And endures with the strength of mountains. Without her, life would be calm; and yet lack all meaning.

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.