We buy too much stuff we just don't need. We're trying to look cute for next weekend when we ought to be thinking about the next decade.
It is impossible to be taken seriously in shorts. No one has ever cared about anything said by a man in shorts.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
