Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else’s lines.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don’t.

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice...

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.