Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Vigorous writing is concise.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.