I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
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."
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.