Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die. - Mark Twain

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English — it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them — then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature.

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.