I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.
Art is hard for a puritan to understand.
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
On sorrow floats laughter.
People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.
The white man gets all the best catchphrases!
How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and occupied them, in the face of the serious situation of social emergency, have not even had the capacity to send doctors there. In some cases they have sent in militaries instead because that is what they are compelled to do. They have had to send military to do it because they do not even have any doctors with the willingness to risk their lives in order to help those people that are precisely paying for the consequences of years of colonization.
Plain as a nose in a man's face.
I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.