. . . he recommended to all those who might be impressed with a sense of their importance to bury a copy or copies of each work properly...

"That was the spring the bees disappeared"

Verses meant to picture flowers Can't shrink from orchidaceous talk!

We could be wrong! What was that stuff we bought?

With science prey to hackers' spite, Art must, as always, feign delight.

Only the victim’s identity's got wrong.

Sound the sleep of the loaded liar!

We martial upright apes are greatly in your debt.

Some things are too fierce, it seems, to mention!

Life, too, is an objet trouvé.

Run slowly, you horses of the night.

You never know how far they'll go!

It's not just our language that's confused!

You shall know them by their loot.

Odd, of all things, the privy's what I best recall . . .

Those others all knew little, too.

The passengers shouldn't trash the train.

You'd like to change this tell-tale nomenclature?

The smallest animal is wiser than a man

It's all an act that we put on.

Between the zero and the one There's room enough to have some fun.

What better than to restore the Feudal Age?

Informing knowledge has too brief a stay

Men walked on the moon, glimpsing its landfill potential for the first time.

A steel engraving of Mary Shelley’s 1831 edition of Frankenstein Even if I should indiscreetly write the perfect sentence, it isn’t...

To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.

Responsibilities should match the words one's got.

What would the USA be without Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Louis Armstrong?

There is a funnel-weaving spider on my deck, which reappears each year to build its ragged web, although whether it is the same one I...

There's no treatment: just use soft brushes and gentle conditioners.

Enormity’s its own reward; it Pays a parting price.

Who knows or understands the body’s complex rage?

Who would have thought it would be so simple?

An unkindness of ravens trumps a parliament of owls.

A page from the manuscript of Alfred Nobel's play Nemesis Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called...

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."—Oscar Wilde, The Importance of...

No one ever listens when the future speaks.

I realize we may serve a purpose after all:

We're still the fastest gun in any zoo!

I’ve always been a fool, so let me be one now.

Unfairness, you see, scarcely ever fails.

What purpose does that realize?

As they say in real estate: Leave last? Turn out the lights!

An icon of Saint Spyridon ( center, front, identifiable by his shepherd’s hat ) silencing Arius ( right, with hands over his mouth ) at...

Entanglement remains a mystery.

That's how you meet the Happy Few.

A father's nothing like a phone.

Ignorance rules, okay?

Make the most of what’s allowed.

A path is made by walking on it. —Zhuang Zhou 7 Merely is its Chinese name.* Master Zhuang Zhou made it a metaphor for his philosophy....