True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.
Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.
You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.
Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
Things are so much global and Americanised.
I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot.
We had all the advantages of being in, you know, the '50s and the '60s, where a one-income household could actually support a family. And mom was around and wanted nothing more than to just, you know, do everything she could for her kids.
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.