Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

Traveling down a road of self-destructionWith no room for any reconstruction

There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.

Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

You don't fight cancer with grants, or heart disease with grants.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

Records and achievements are made to be broken.