Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.