These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller. – Proverb Category: Friends
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends. – Chinese Proverb Category: Friends
With all due respect to lawyers, its wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on. – Sonny Bono Category: Knowledge
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. – Marguerite Duras Category: Journalism
You dont help people in your poems. Ive been trying to help people all my life – thats my trouble. – Charles Olson Category: Poetry