When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.
Behind every mystery lies another mystery.
It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.
Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
It's better to copulate than not.