writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.

You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don't feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.