“… we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationary.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That is what this storm is all about.” – Haruki Murakami, ‘Kafka On The Shore,’ 2002.