Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Silence is become his mother tongue.
I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.
There's a lid for every pot. . . You Just have to find yours. -Avery
On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child, an old Gene Pitney record. A parade of trivia with no place to go. Things that bump around in our consciousness for two or three days then go back to wherever they came from. . . to darkness. We've got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth.
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.