To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.