Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

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