So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You cant fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. – William S. Burroughs
Americas greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. – John W. Gardner
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. – Henry David Thoreau
