“Available. A thought is perfect only when it is perfectly available, that is to say when one can place it and detach it at will.”

“If you can't go for it, be available when it comes.”

“If God only used perfect people, nohting would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.”

“The maxim ‘Nothing avails but perfection’ may be spelt shorter: ‘Paralysis.”

“When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.”

“Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me not.”

“I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available.”

“The discovery of new knowledge for ourselves, then, means the assimilation of public information into our unique context of thought. ie can establish relations between ideas and concepts which are not available to anyone else, because no-one else has precisely the same system of information available.”

“Perfectionism is a shield that we carry with a thought process that says this, 'If I look perfect, live perfect, work perfect, and do it all perfectly, I can avoid or minimize feeling shame, blame, and judgement.”

“When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere.”