What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.
You cannot write well without data.
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
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.
Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.
Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.