A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.Chuck Palahniuk
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.F. Scott Fitzgerald
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.Michel de Montaigne