What do stars do? They shine.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.