Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.
The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.
Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.
Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.