The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.