I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
I miss my wife's cooking, as often as I can
Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.
Zsa Zsa Gabor is an expert housekeeper. Every time she gets divorced, she keeps the house.
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. . . You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner.
Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.
It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L. A. , nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle. . . and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.