Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said the woman. "In a simple order," said the man. "With encouragement," said the woman. "And a positive attitude.

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

oil paints...the look of licked lips.

If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.