Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was like photographing a photograph. The sun became a monstrous light-bulb that projected a detached series of stills through my Instamatic into my eye.