Poise and indifference so often look the same.
Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
I only get writer's block about once a day.
Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.