That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.