I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.