The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.
After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.