Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are - that we'd like nothing more than to be 'allowed in' with the able-bodied competitors.
Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities.
I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem.
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
Economic policy is like business - it's all about compromise.
Apart from boosting our long-term economic strength like other Asian economic powers, Philippine companies expanding overseas and going beyond our comfort zones, or going to some uncharted territories, will help sharpen our management skills.
Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
I don't like the Sunday newspapers - I read them because I have to. 'Sunday Times,' 'Telegraph,' 'Independent' on Sunday - I find them heavy and too much! I prefer 'The Economist.'
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates.
I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
I really like Ed Sheeran.
It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.
