Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

Life went on, despite all the dying.

In the end we will realise that we only came to earth to love

Patch leaned back against the booth and arched his eyebrows at me. The gesture said it all: Pay up."You got lucky, " I

If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table.

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

There's probably nobody that knows the Justice Department better than me.

It's a rare thing when you can read a script in one sitting and you haven't looked at the watch or you've gone to make a cup of tea.

The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.