Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.

No matter how much you learn in college, it never prepares you for the real world.

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.

My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.

Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.