I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

All Thing Serve the Beam

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.