A poem should improve on the blank page.
It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.
I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.
In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid. ' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on and you're up to somethin'.
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later. " "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica. " Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.
What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business.
The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.
In my personal life, I will do whatever it takes to make a situation comfortable if I sense - if I'm talking to someone [and] I sense there's a silence, I'll try to fill that gap. It makes me very anxious when things get uncomfortable.