Marbles

"Short and sweet. . . . The pleasure of Guida's aphorisms is the way they illuminate the ridiculous, childlike, or reckless nature of our actions while simultaneously convincing us that we wouldn't know nearly as much about ourselves and others without our errors."—The Second Pass

"It takes a rare gift to write in the aphoristic form, which must be witty and modest at once, and must state in a fresh, arresting...