Having It All — in which the first word represents desultory acquisition, the second conformity, and the third inability to choose.
The more that is shown, the less that is suggested; and to show everything, suggesting nothing, is pornography, regardless of the subject.
There is almost nothing that being prefaced with “social” cannot spoil.
If everyone were morally gray, there would remain the question of shade.
In our zeal to justify our opinions we neglect to justify having them at all.
Poetry is language at its limit, as math is logic at its limit; and poetry anxiety, like math anxiety, is only the realization that comprehension requires effort, and the fear that even then it may never arrive.
The Fundamental Law of Fashion states that what becomes popular must be abandoned: thus the government and press must be trusted, now that everyone distrusts them.
Adults who wish to remain children don’t have them.
Bad writers try to start discussions, good writers try to end them.
The poor often have money, just not for long.