There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.