People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.