“Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.”

“It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.”

“Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.”

“Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.”

“Maybe it doesn't matter that life never blossomed into something larger than itself.”

“Rule 1: Only overrule the tactical computer if you know something it doesn't. Rule 2: The tac comp always knows more than you do.”

“Something doesn't start
at its usual time.
Something doesn't happen
as it should.”

“It doesn't matter what you do… so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”

“Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.
It doesn't last very long.”

“Worse than war is the very fear of war.”
peior est bello timor ipse belli.