Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.
Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
Music dissolves the straight and narrow.
Listen to what people say about themselves; they will tell you everything you need to know.
Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.
Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.