People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.