Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.