Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.

A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?