Write. Don't think. Relax.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?