Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.
Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.
As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.
If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.
There is no greater burden than great potential.
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.
The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.
Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.
