Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.