Are you a terrorist? Or just an idiot?

Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty is like watching that fish die right there on the cement in front of you.

She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "pg 346

A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.

Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that?

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

Unrest is the mark of existence.

From today, painting is dead.

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.

The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.