An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.
Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.