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

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

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

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.

An entomologist is not a bug.

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.