Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.
Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.
It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.
If I were to say, "Yes, I am a fascinating, erudite person," what would that say about me? I don't know.
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!
There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country. . . The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.
Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.