When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.