Bruges at first light, before the tour boats.

Spend the effort on the decisions that compound. In practice there are only three of them in a working life:

1. Which city you build a life in,
2. Who you keep close, and
3. What you refuse to work on.

Four months of editing a 900-page manuscript down to 340. Everything I cut is in the endnotes now, which is its own kind of confession.