A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.