It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it. - Gabrielle Zevin

What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,'" Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.

...the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.

There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's tastes exceed one's abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.