“Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.”
“Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick.”