Every policy I support seems to threaten democracy itself.
Jul 202023
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Jul 192023
Islam is monotheist: Allah is always and everywhere the same. Christianity is polytheist: there are German, English, Latin, African, and American Christian gods, along with extinct historical versions, all incompatible and eternally at odds
Jul 172023
At first the artist concerns himself with what to put in, and later, as he matures, with what to leave out.
Jul 122023
You make the news, and then it makes you.
Jun 212023
In Hollywood, no one knows anything, not even who wrote what.
Jun 202023
A just God would be beside the point.
Jun 122023
What we laugh at in a comedy we rarely applaud, and what we applaud we rarely laugh at.
Jun 082023
The history of Western art would be entirely different if, 500 years ago, we had known that the Greeks painted their sculpture.
May 302023
Why must the mousy bookworm blossom into a beauty, the malingerer become a battle hero, the hard-bitten hooker turn out true-blue? Because it makes a change.
May 252023
Whereof one may not speak, thereof one sees a great deal.