Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Sometimes even a "Yes" can be fatal for our Souls

We have joy for the assurance of the promise.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

Sunny is what you are. Everything else is what you think.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films