top of page
More

"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
Author Name
Personal Development

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
Author Name
Personal Development

"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."
Author Name
Personal Development

"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
Author Name
Personal Development

"A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
Expression

"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
Experience

"America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
Expression

"I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts."
Thought

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."
Expression

"Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels."
Poetry

"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."
Expression

"Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh."
Art

"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."
Poetry

"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture."
Cultural
bottom of page