I recently published a blog post that the Thesaurus called abstruse, recondite, and can-of-worms. I’m offering you, the reader, these cookies as a digestive.

Not everything is simple. It’s helpful to accept the nature of a situation, idea, person, or action: If it’s simple, accept it as simple; if it’s complex, don’t you start hoping that it be anything other than complex.
To a listener in a state of great agitation, your simple words don’t necessarily come across as simple. Talking reason to craziness is crazy!
Between a dumb answer and an intelligent question, what would you choose?
Knowledge is like a serpent in soap. It “slithers.”
Too much light is blinding. The juxtaposition of light and shadow makes things easier to see.
To sense that you’re confused is more useful than to blame the confusion all around you.
It’s costly to be sure, if you happen to be sure and wrong.