There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.
Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto.
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.