Poems List

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand,' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.'

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

Number of Open Mics (NOM)

Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.