Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.