The duel with yourself is whether Your life will be a duel with God Or a duel against others This is the fight of your life And you have two hands

The most surprising aspect of the… though perhaps it shouldn’t have b… was the amount of paperwork it gen…

Human beings are social creatures because even though we can only ever talk to ourselves it works better when we talk to ou… in the presence of others

If as according to us their problem is being worse than… at least they can get better But our problem

When a woman chooses her mate His first real test Is whether he accepts her dare To propose If he does, we already know her an…

In phase one we lived in order to live In phase two we talked in order to live In phase three,

In real life we used to say I’ll see your talk and raise you action but that was just too risky Preferring no stakes

The baton is a scroll that says– among other things– The road goes on forever Heaven is

Liberalism deepened by religion Religion widened by liberalism Until the body and soul politic Is so deep That it swallows our fears

What else can I say? Is for most people a rhetorical qu… But the poet takes it literally Making it the exception that prove… That everything is a metaphor for…

When the dull knives are out and you say all the approved thing… in all the approved ways you have proved the silencing of dissent

Paper comes from trees but when money was made of paper we all agreed that money doesn’t grow on trees

What if I could just do no wrong Then surely, I’d still get to bel… Perforce, I did nothing And found myself bluffing Whenever I needed to be strong

When I was a kid the rule was one kid got to pour two glasses of Coke and the other kid

Life’s unhappiest surprises always come from those you’ve known forever without ever knowing the score but now you will