Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
A flat black bug, that is London.
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.
Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.
Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
I loved the seventies.
There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.