A good artist lets her intuition lead her wherever it wants.
~ Lao Zi
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
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Avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move — which is ambition, power, pleasure.
~ William Faulkner
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Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist—all those who must hold language before them so that they can see what it means, where it errs, and where it is leading.
~ Neil Postman via The Atlantic
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If a dependent clause, or an introductory phrase requiring to be set off by a comma, precedes the second independent clause, no comma is needed after the conjunction.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
~ Lewis Mumford
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