for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.

If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn't belong there.

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

It don't cost money to ask.