Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.
It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.
Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently.
It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.
The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.
Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it. *
Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.
God as "he," as a patriarchal thing, is offensive to me. It's standard fare for America - "he, he, he. " Every time I hear that, it's like another blow against females. It's very radical talk at this point for females to say this kind of stuff, but nationwide, I still hear females referring to God as "he. "