It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
History is more or less bunk.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.