I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.

More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, our culture has been carved up into radically distinct, unbridgeable, and antagonistic entities that no longer speak the same language and cannot communicate. This is the divide between a literate, marginalized minority and those who have been consumed by an illiterate mass culture.

Mother of dead dogs.