It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum is journalism, which is much more cerebral, more thought-out and planned. Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both.
I'm never afraid of research. I relish it!
Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.
Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.
So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted.
Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?