Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.
I had one proprietor of a struggling bed and breakfast tell me, 'People want a ghost. I have to pay my bills. I'll give them a ghost'.
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
The arts are not a way to make a living,
You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.