At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
A poem is no place for an idea.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.