If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

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

Anger has been ready to be angry.