Thought is action in rehearsal.
Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at the start. It announces a total contrast with what has gone before, and the reader is thereby primed for the change.
What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.
The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.
Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.