I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.