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.

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

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

An entomologist is not a bug.

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

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.