The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.