There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
It's finished. Everything went past, without me.
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.
I grew up in the 70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends. Before the age of technology, it was also easier to just disappear from the face of the earth.
Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.
You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.
"We can't name it, but we can sing along. " That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.
If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.