We Gain No Wisdom By

The Real Gladiators Of The World Are So Humble In Their Origins And Unremarkable In Appearance That When We Stand Next To Them In A Grocery-store Line, We Never Guess How Brightly Their Souls Can Burn In The Dark.

The System Shaves The Dice On The Side Of Those With Money And Power, And Anyone Who Believes Otherwise Deserves Anything That Happens To Him.

Writing Is Like Being In Love. You Never Get Better At It Or Learn More About It. The Day You Think You Do Is The Day You Lose It. Robert Frost Called His Work A Lover's Quarrel With The World. It's Ongoing. It Has Neither A Beginning Nor An End. You Don't Have To Worry About Learning Things. The Fire Of One's Art Burns All The Impurities From The Vessel That Contains It.

God Bless The Reference Librarians

If You Put Somebody On A Crack Pipe And Give Them A 9 Mm Baretta, You Don't Have To Be A Rocket Scientist To Figure Out What's Going To Happen Next.