Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. - Jim Harrison

He looked around the clearing in recognition that he was lost but didn’t mind because he knew he had never been found.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don't know what.

The Statue of Liberty, that frequently malevolent bitch, has an enormous tumor in her gut that has spread to her brain and eyes. With regard to the Native Americans she has Alzheimer's or mad cow disease and can't remember her past, and her blind eyes can't see the terrifying plight of most of the Indian tribes. Meanwhile she blows China and stomps Cuba to death, choosing to forget the Native cultures she has already destroyed.