The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.