Good shoulders and a long waist are the most necessary when it comes to wearing clothes.
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.
Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.
Belief does not change what is.
The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.
The world that has made us can no longer contain us
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.