And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
–Sylvia Plath
I will be separated from Padma, my dung-lotus extending an arm towards me
across the turbulent sea, until she drowns in the crowd and I am alone in the
vastness of the numbers...
–Salman Rushdie