Story = Character + Predicament + Attempted Extrication

Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems.

Lord who art always the same give that I know myself give that I know Thee.

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.

Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

Diversify your investments.

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.