He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.