The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.

Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.