Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story.