People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody else's head, in the dark snow of their mind.

Success is like water, the more thirsty you are for it is the more you will drink it, and you'll need it forever to survive.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

So this is happiness, that journeyman.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

Mutual defiance made them alike.

Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away