Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police aren't going to come and take you away. Even William Strunk, that Mussolini of rhetoric, recognized the delicious pliability of language. "It is an old observation," he writes, "that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric." Yet he goes on to add this thought, which I urge you to consider: "Unless he is certain of doing well, [the writer] will probably do best to follow the rules."

Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. “You came!” Jake shouted. “You really came!” “I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?