Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .