Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'