Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other.

A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dating a misogynist.

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.