On little devices the people carried around with them, it was all monster all the time.

America is definitely crazy, definitely violent, and other countries are funny, kind, and sweet.

"It is our culture." "Our right." "Isn't this the price of freedom?" "Isn't this absurd, grotesque?" They are dead now.

Did all sixteen of your great great grandparents live, work, and die in the same town where you now live? If no, then you're a child of migrants.

The destruction of a ruin is like the desecration of a body. It is a vengeance wreaked on the past in order to embitter the future.

Silence is simply not an option. This is everybody's business.

"So it begins," a medical officer wrote.

September 2014, @kyliejenner | Instagram Madonna Litta, c. 1490, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (See also: Fathers and Sons.)

What is hidden between here, where you stand, and there?

George W. Bush, Barney, 2012 (?) Lapata, Humsafar: President George W. Bush with his Scottie, Barney, 2007 Marlene Dumas, The Blindfolded, 2002 Luc Tuymans, Secretary…

I know I got a bad reputation. Walk around always mad reputation.

The prisoner is not working. He stands erect, faces forward. He wears a floppy hat and dark glasses (when they let him go thirteen years later, he will be unable to shed tears: the limestone quarry will have ruined his eyes). He is a contained fury.