A Sense Of Humour Is Common Sense

I Won't Have To Miss Smoking Any More. Nobody Smokes Where I'm Going: It's Like A Row Of Restaurants In California.

Pound Had Argued - And Eliot Had Helped Him Prove - That A Poem Could Be Sustained By Memorable Moments. Olson Proved That It Could Be Sustained By Unmemorable Ones, Provided That The Texture Of The Accumulated Jottings Avoided The Sound Of Failed Poetry.

Writers Quite Often Starve. And I'm Mainly Just Writing Critical Prose And Poetry, That's A Formula For Starvation.

If The Humanism That Makes Civilization Civilized Is To Be Preserved Into The New Century, It Will Need Advocates. These Advocates Will Need A Memory, And Part Of That Memory Will Need To Be Of An Age In Which They Were Not Yet Alive.

When I Finally Embraced Abstinence It Was Because Of The Simple Urge To Work A Longer Day. Thus, Without Joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I Was At Last Able To Leave Piss-artists Notorious.