Animals Often Strike Us As Passionate Machines.

Facts Are Counterrevolutionary.

In Products Of The Human Mind, Simplicity Marks The End Of A Process Of Refining, While Complexity Marks A Primitive Stage. Michelangelo 's Definition Of Art As The Purgation Of Superfluities Suggests That The Creative Effort Consists Largely In The Elimination Of That Which Complicates And Confuses A Pattern.

The Intellectuals And The Young, Booted And Spurred, Feel Themselves Born To Ride Us.

Good Writing , Like Gold , Combines Lustrous Lucidity With High Density. What This Means Is Good Writing Is Packed With Hints.

Unpredictability, Too, Can Become Monotonous.