Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.

That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?