If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.