It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

V.S. Naipaul

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

Mark Twain

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!

Ray Bradbury

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a nam

William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

“One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store.”

Patricia Marx