The Bridge
Beauty linked to life and death. More
"Wilde stepped off the train in Oakland wearing a Spanish sombrero, a velvet suit, a puce cravat, yellow gloves, and buckled shoes, and wended his way across the bay to the Bohemian Club, where he is reported to have drunk his hosts under the table."
– Kevin Starr, California: A History


"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More