Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
An empty man is full of himself.
J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.