Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters.

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!