Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

You cannot write well without data.

The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.