Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.