Oscar

“Mothers of America
let your kids go to the movies!
get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to
it's true that fresh air is good for the body
but what about the soul
that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images
and when you grow old as grow old you must
they won't hate you”
― Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems

“Le soleil, ruisselant dans le bureau sous les stores baissés, taille dans la fumée des cigares une coupe oblique semblable à de la soie mouillée.”
― John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer

“And to the slave, the master’s way of life represents the ideal free lifestyle.”
― bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“You can never go wrong cuttin' fence,' repeated Smith, warming to his task. (Pling!) "Always cut fence. That's the law west of the 100th meridian. East of that don't matter none. Back there it's all lost anyhow. But west, we cut fence,' (Plang!)”
― Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang