Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Love is the garment of knowledge.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.