The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.

Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

...Skyscraper National Park