Rain is grace rain is the sky condescending to the earth without rain, there would be no life

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen