If You Can't Annoy Somebody, There Is

Education Is One Thing And Instruction, However Worthy, Necessary And Incidentally Or Monetarily Educative, Another.

I Want A Dish To Taste Good, Rather Than To Have Been Seethed In Pig's Milk And Served Wrapped In A Rhubarb Leaf With Grated Thistle Root.

Whatever Part Drink May Play In The Writer's Life, It Must Play None In His Or Her Work.

I've Been Trying To Write For As Long As I Can Remember. But Those First Fifteen Years Didn't Produce Much Of Great Interest. I Mean, It Embarrasses Me Very Much To Look Back On My Early Poems--very Few Lines Of Any Merit At All And Lots Of Affectation. But There Were Quite A Lot Of Them. That's A Point In One's Favor.

Laziness Has Become The Chief Characteristic Of Journalism, Displacing Incompetence.