"We vivisect the nightingale
To probe the secret of his note."
"Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all." Sir Arthur James Balfour
"I write to escape ... to escape poverty." Edgar Rice Burroughs
"If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today." Willem de Kooning