Begin when you have the strength. You have it now

top connecting with the world. Connect with yourself on your beach. Stop thinking. Stop analyzing. Start feeling. Start dreaming.

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

Losers never know why they are losing. They will mention injuries, the officiating, the weather and bad breaks.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?