Rebecca West

He is every other inch a gentleman.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.