What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.