Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.