"Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless than the colors of an autumn forest. ...Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them, in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire." --Chesterton, quoted by Borges in: Selected Non-Fictions ed. Eliot Weinwerger (1999)

Information is not a mass noun but a count noun. That fact by itself dooms the SuperInfoWay.

Since Americans despise the things they profess to respect--freedom, intelligence, & individuality--the only reason not to be a liar is martyrdom.

Someday it will be understood just as clearly that power & egotism should be kept apart, as kids & guns today.

"Evil" as the shadow cast by the hand of fear in the spotlight of despair.

Refusing to believe in chance is the most subtle, & perhaps the least pernicious, form of denial. But who is there can believe in neither chance nor necessity?

All the practitioners of unpopular arts are like Ed Wood: they have the greatest difficulty just getting people to first take them seriously.

Torture is a Rubicon. --saying of Asmodeus

For a bumpersticker: "GNOSTICS/ Know All the Pass Words."

Cities are the creation of slave societies & they continue to enslave us by the burden of their unquestioned demands.

It may not be strictly true, but it would be very helpful if it were generally believed that you cannot be a poet without reading poetry.

What if poetry readings were completely unscheduled & nobody ever knew when they would hear one again?