Poetry Is So Vital To Us Until

It's Always Seemed Odd To Me That After A Group Of Terrorists Commits A Vile And Odious Deed They Rush Messages To The Public To Claim Credit For It.

How Many More Years Will Our Educators Continue To Lecture Us On The Evils Of Whipping Children Until They Bring Home High Grades? Year After Year We Listen To These Fellows Tell Us That It Is Not The Grade That Counts But The Development Of The Child's Personality. After The Lecture They Go Back To All The Best Schools And Reject Our Children Because They Have C Averages.

It's Good For The Soul To Hear Yourself As Others Hear You, And Next Time Maybe, Just Maybe, You Will Not Talk So Much, So Loudly, So Brilliantly, So Charmingly, So Utterly Shamelessly Foolishly.

Happiness Is A Small And Unworthy Goal For Something As Big And Fancy As A Whole Lifetime, And Should Be Taken In Small Doses.

It Takes Great Self-confidence To Write A Newspaper Column. Some Might Say It Takes Arrogance. Be That As It May, My Willingness To Pronounce On A Great Many Matters Of Which I Have Little Or No Knowledge Is One Of My Prime Qualifications For This Trade.