It's been awhile and they're piling up

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter - here ink is smeared on a page, there lies an old photograph with a chewed corner, elsewhere still, a nest has been made of old newspapers, headlines running one into the other to make strange declarations. There is no order to what we recall, the wheel of time follows no straight line as it turns in our heads. In the dark attic of our minds, all times mingle, sometimes literally.
-Charles de Lint "Onion Girl"

If a character isn't working in the story for whatever reason, don't edit them out. Just kill them. You'll be surprised how everyone reacts.
-unknown

I want to be creating new things, but the only way to create new things is to throw yourself into a situation where you're flailing and frightened.
-David Usher

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has of warriors.
-Charles de Lint

I don't want the demons taken away because thy're going to take away my angels, too.
-James Hillman

As I grow older, I discover more and more that the greatest gift I have to offer is my own joy of living, my own inner peace, my own silence and solitude, my own sense of well-being. When I ask myself, "Who helps me most?" I must answer, "The one who is willing to share his or her life with me."
-Henri J. M. Nouwen

To be inside that music, to be drawn into the circle of its repetitions: perhaps that is a place where one could finally disappear.
-Paul Auster "City of Glass"