Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

'Could you try not aiming so much?' he asked me, still standing there. 'If you hit him when you aim, it'll just be luck.' He was speaking, communicating, and y…

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has…

Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When wa…

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Difficile est proprie communia dicere.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possib…