That big gun in your hand makes you look grown up—you think! I’ll bet you spend hours posing in front of a mirror holding it, trying to look tough!... You scum!
—Richard Brooks (1912–1992)
For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
—Haniel Long (1888–1956)
I never remember holding a full drink.
My first look shows the level half-way down.
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)