Everything in a story should be credible.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)

All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.