"The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species."
"It's the occasion that makes the revolution."
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Source: Machado de Assis (1963). “The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories”, p.113, Univ of California Press
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