It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.