All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition. -- Nancy Kress

Some suggestions for you :

The best cure for sea sickness is to sit under a tree.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold.

A home without books is a body without soul.