The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.
whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.
You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.