Writing

Every month a new moon emerges, waxes, and wanes — but it always is the same. The only difference is how we see it.

If you’re running a race, don’t stop to pick up apples.

Everybody is answerable to another.

Most humiliations fail to humble the malefactor.

The pessimist is more pleased with positive outcomes than the optimist.

Scoundrels can still be sophisticated.

If you see a volcano erupt, you shouldn’t need to touch lava to learn that it burns.

There’s an art to looking at art: Spend hours with the best pieces in the house and seconds with everything else.

Most people never learn to stop reading books they dislike.

Procrastination is practical patience.