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.

What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?

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

Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.