Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may thrive.
Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.
Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.