TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

High school was great when it ended.