You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

France has usually been governed by prostitutes

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.