Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European civilization. Then there was the First World War. That was the beginning of the end. That civilization has been in a decline ever since. But from the American triumphalist point of view our wonderful electronic revolution is really the forefront of an ongoing wonderful civilization.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

My country tears of thee.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.