Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.