You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows