I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.
Writing well is the best revenge.
Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
John Cobb is saying that perhaps we are beginning to see that now as our greed goes completely out of control and everything is seen through money, through corporate power, etc. , etc. We know it well. He asked the question, What will be the holocaust that takes us to the next era? - which he describes as "Earthism. "
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.
Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves. . . Every place was a tilting edge.