"There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one."
- Mary Hoffman
"How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked.'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do any more to it. And then you need to stop because if you don't, you will spoil it..."
"I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job."