All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
Intention, good or bad, is not enough.
A good writer always works at the impossible.
One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.