Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock..

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain..

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways..

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver..

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery..

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events..

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds..

London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, ….

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves ….

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up..

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless..

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories..

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall..

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps..