The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often read more

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb.

You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb.

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus read more

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes read more

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of read more

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.