"The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob."

-- Gerard De Nerval

“Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.”
“Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.”
“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.”

Source : Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.35, Basic Books
“You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.”

Source : "Gore Vidal on the media". Interview with Paul Jay, therealnews.com. July 11, 2007.
“A tie is like kissing your sister.”
“As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.”
“For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”

Source : "Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better". www.nytimes.com. July 09, 2009.
“There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience. That's not to say all the songs are biographical, because sometimes it's what I've seen in others' lives.”

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