Eddie Vedder, "Far Behind"

The mind has plenty of ways of preventing you from writing, and paralysing self-consciousness is a good one. The only thing to do is ignore it, and remember what Vincent van Gogh said in one of his letters about the painter's fear of the blank canvas - the canvas, he said, is far more afraid of the painter.

Sir  Philip Pullman, from Dæmon Voices: Essays on Storytelling

The world begins where the road ends.