'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.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.