Category: Aphorisms

If you have writer’s block, go for a walk. Maybe an idea will greet you as you wander, and if it doesn’t at least you get exercise.

Displeasure is poor motivation.

Ideas exist before we think them, discovered, not created.

If you get only one at-bat, swing for a home run when you see your pitch.

One shouldn’t learn French just to read Victor Hugo — but if you know it and don’t read him you might be a monster.

For most people, money is a prerequisite to dignity.

Even Shakespeare wrote some stuff that sucks.

You don’t need to know that a titmouse is actually a bird and not a mouse unless you’re an ornithologist or exterminator.

Hunger should not be a humiliation humans bear.

Everything is the chiral consequence of something else.