The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry."

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.