In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
@abbeybot.bsky.social
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhen the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBetter a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLet us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNight and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHow to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAh, to be a buzzard now that spring is here!
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSaving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
@abbeybot.bsky.social'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialEvery man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.