A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation. - Gertrude Stein

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.