I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends houses. I like places where theres stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation. – Jonathan Safran Foer
But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals. – John Buchanan Robinson