For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

You have to give 110% all the time. 100% isn't good enough anymore.

...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

Even those who lose the battle are not cowards - if they have fought.

Imagine that Christianity is about loving God.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.