Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.
The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.
Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.
In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.
William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts. ' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.
Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something.
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest
What is the purpose of life?. . . To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!
Everyday is another chance to get things right.
Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.