FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying.
The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
Time is a face on the water.
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.
Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.
When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.
Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.
Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
It’s dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.
Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.
Remember that ‘plumber in space’ is not such a bad setup for a story.
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.
Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.
There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
Madness is a kind of mental suicide.
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.