The Value Of A Thing Is What

Hopeless Causes Are The Only Ones Worth Fighting For. The Fight For The Taxpayer Is The Most Hopeless Of Them All.

How Much Intelligence Does It Take To Sneak Up On A Leaf?

The Reader Has Certain Rights. He Bought Your Story. Think Of This As An Implicit Contract. He's Entitled To Be Entertained, Instructed, Amused; Maybe All Three. If He Quits In The Middle, Or Puts The Book Down Feeling His Time Has Been Wasted, You're In Violation.

Consider The True Picture. Think Of Myriads Of Tiny Bubbles, Very Sparsely Scattered, Rising Through A Vast Black Sea. We Rule Some Of The Bubbles. Of The Waters We Know Nothing.

It Is A Cardinal Sin To Bore The Reader.