When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.

Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

The stars incline, but do not impel.