The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?