The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.