A Real Book Is Not One That

To Pray Is To Pay Attention To Something Or Someone Other Than Oneself.

Art Is Our Chief Means Of Breaking Bread With The Dead.

Lost In A Haunted Wood, Children Afraid Of The Night Who Have Never Been Happy Or Good.

Ideally, Government Is The Means By Which All The Individual Wills Are Assured Complete Freedom Of Moral Choice And At The Same Time Prevented From Ever Clashing.

But If A Stranger In The Train Asks Me My Occupation, I Never Answer "writer" For Fear That He May Go On To Ask Me What I Write, And To Answer "poetry" Would Embarrass Us Both, For We Both Know That Nobody Can Earn A Living Simply By Writing Poetry.