There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
Don MarquisI once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
Don MarquisPublishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis