A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.
A closed mind is a dying mind.
Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.
Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.