Time and Chance

The power comes in her offhanded delivery. At their initial encounter, the subtext is uneasy, electric with forbidenness. But then she casually disarms the…

There are plenty of mistakes you can quietly go about fixing yourself. But when your error involves a promise or expectation given to someone…

An hour later, lost and mudstained, you wonder how you got there in the first place. You don’t remember ever making a decision…it just…

The violent man is like a dragon sleeping on his horde of treasure—never able to use it, and never happy about it.

Most of the time, living with integrity turns out pretty well. Usually, illegal arms dealers do not live long, blissful lives, surrounded by beloved…

We do not naturally possess wisdom. Left to your own devices, you are not in good hands. There is something inside us that is…

The beginning of wisdom is to know that you don’t know.

You can rage yourself into exhaustion or whisper a warning, but the performance you can expect will always depend on the standards you enforce.

Appearances are deceiving. What is concealed is eventually revealed, and your sum total will be a loss of trust.

A fool will fail to grasp social complexities or care about anyone’s feelings except her own. You will find yourself stirring up a storm…