Go for broke.  Always try and do too much.  Dispense with safety nets.  Take a deep breath before you begin talking.  Aim for the stars.  Keep grinning.  Be bloody-minded.  Argue with the world.  And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things — childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves — that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers.

-Salman Rushdie