'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.