When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.