To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you. - James Richardson

The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.

I’m surprised that multiple personalities are so much less common in reality than in fiction: what a little disorder it would take, a distraction, a sleep, for one of our minor characters to imagine he was the star, to speak out for everyone else. And that’s what it would be, a change of billing, not of authorship. For you do not write your play—you are just the character in it called The Playwright. The real writer, you never meet.

I’ve spent so long trying to fly that it’s too late to set out on foot.