Smyth's Sayings

Check your selfie before you wreck your selfie.

Smyth's Sayings

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to buy white BMWs.

Smyth's Sayings

When life gives you lemons, make a sour face.

NB (to archivists)

What goes on vellum, stays on vellum.

Literary maxim

Write about what you know.

And then lie.

Ancient wisdom

Red sky at night: shepherds' delight.
Green ammonia-filled acrid smoke-piss in the morning: asparagus for dinner.

Up/down

These days are the price we pay for the other days.

Good form!

I cry with laughter at my own jokes. Seriously.

It seems to me

To be a great artist you need solitude. To be a successful artist you need friends.

Navigating the past

Go far enough down Memory Lane and eventually you'll discover it's a cul-de-sac.

Unspoken truths

I don't say a great deal that isn't true. But I also don't say a lot that is.

The smaller picture

Every life is many days, day after day...

- Joyce, Ulysses

This is a day - same as any other

- Smyth

Sweet dreams

The sort of decisions we need to sleep on are rarely those which allow for much sleep.

I used to be a pretentious angry youg man

These days, I don't even bother to pretend.

Smyth's sayings

If you want to believe that you make your own luck then you're going to have to wonder about your misfortunes.

Smyth's sayings

Adolescent text-speak acronyms - that's how I rofl!

Smyth's sayings

Pant jam. It's a woman's preserve.

Smyth's sayings

I'm no different from the next guy.

I've just given it more thought.

Salieri's plaint

Some are born mediocre; some achieve mediocrity; but most, slowly but surely, have mediocrity imposed upon them.

Smyth's Sayings

Nothing is what it is until afterwards.

By which time it's too late.