If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.