Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.
Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.
At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee.