Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

Drunkenness had this to be said for it, it stopped the flow of inspirations.

What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together

Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one.