“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
"That afternoon the muzhiki sent a delegation to deliver an ultimatum: five thousand rubles by morning or suffer a pogrom."
"I would sit in front of the class and pretend to have answers to their questions about geometry, history, science, etc."
"Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived."
"something is always burning, / london, paris, detroit, l.a., the neighbor- / hoods no one outside seems to see until / they're backlit by flames…"
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
