Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. - Jorge Luis Borges

Ts'ui Pe must have said once: I am withdrawing to write a book. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a labyrinth. Every one imagined two works; to no one did it occur that the book and the maze were one and the same thing.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.