By All Means Break The Rules.

How Much Money You Get, Depends On Lots Of Extraneous Things. It Depends On How Good You Are At Turning Poetry Into A Marketable Product, Which Is Something It Was Never Supposed To Be. That's Why Many People Suppose That The Better The Poet You Are The Lower Your Income Should Be, And That's Probably True.

To Design Things Means To Interfere With Things: To Think Of How They Might Be And To Alter How They Are. Design Is To Making As Writing Is To Speech: It Is An Ordinary Physical Activity Pushed To A Conscious Edge. That Interference With The Given World Can Still Be Founded On Admiration. Where It Is Not, What Is The Point Of Designing At All?

If You Divide The World Into Them And Us, And History Into Ours And Theirs, Or If You Think Of History As Something Only You And Your Affiliates Possess, Then No Matter What You Know, No Matter How Noble Your Intentions, You Have Taken One Step Toward The Destruction Of The World.

Essay On Adam" There Are Five Possibilities. One: Adam Fell. Two: He Was Pushed. Three: He Jumped. Four: He Only Looked Over The Edge, And One Look Silenced Him. Five: Nothing Worth Mentioning Happened To Adam. The First, That He Fell, Is Too Simple. The Fourth, Fear, We Have Tried And Found Useless. The Fifth, Nothing Happened, Is Dull. The Choice Is Between: He Jumped Or Was Pushed. And The Difference Between These Is Only An Issue Of Whether The Demons Work From The Inside Out Or From The Outside In: The One Theological Question.

In The Nineteenth Century, Which Was A Dark And Inflationary Age In Typography, Man Compositors Were Encouraged To Stuff Extra Space Between Sentences. Generations Of Twentieth-century Typists Were Then Taught To Do The Same, By Hitting The Spacebar Twice After Every Period. Your Typing As Well As Your Typesetting Will Benefit From Unlearning This Quaint Victorian Habit.