One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?
What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
There are two types of freedom in this world: freedom to and freedom from.
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.