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Monthly Archives: November 2007

On the war on terror

“If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.”
Common Form, 1919

On Thanksgiving

“They will drink our healths at dinner, those who tell us how they love us, And forget us till another year be gone!”

Advice to Britney Spears and K-Fed

“If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;”
From “If”

On the Hollywood writers’ strike

“[T]he mere act of writing was, and always has been, a physical pleasure to me.”