Writing

Never tell a story when a sentence will suffice.

The worst mistakes are those with no price tags.

From now until the end of time, you will never be younger than you are today.

To the unforeseen, no difference exists between the blind and the unlucky.

Walking on water is less about how much you weigh and more about how well you swim.

Some people are stars. Most are the emptiness of space. A few are black holes.

The insignificant can still inspire.

Under certain circumstances, killing a man might be called for. Making him dig his own grave never is.

Each of us is still a small child, not in our own minds or inner selves but in the memories of those who knew us in our youth, and only when they forget us — only if they cease to remember us — do our childhoods finally die.

One can go a long way through life without being none the wiser for never reading “The Waste Land.”