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.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

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

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.