I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.