A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order. – Jean Luc Godard

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. – Van Wyck Brooks

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. – Ralph Waldo Emerson