Style is the answer to everything.<br />A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing<br />To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it<br />To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art<br /><br />Bullfighting can be an art<br />Boxing can be an art<br />Loving can be an art<br />Opening a can of sardines can be an art<br /><br />Not many have style<br />Not many can keep style<br />I have seen dogs with more style than men,<br />although not many dogs have style.<br />Cats have it with abundance.<br /><br />When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,<br />that was style.<br />Or sometimes people give you style<br />Joan of Arc had style<br />John the Baptist<br />Jesus<br />Socrates<br />Caesar<br />García Lorca.<br /><br />I have met men in jail with style.<br />I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.<br />Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.<br />Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,<br />or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.