In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
People who expect deference resent mere civility.
Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.