I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.