It's Nervous Work. The State

Sometimes, Surely, Truth Is Closer To Imagination Or To Intelligence, To Love Than To Fact? To Be Accurate Is Not To Be Right.

The United Nations Emerged As A Temple Of Official Good Intentions, A Place Where Governments Might - Without Abating Their Transgressions - Go To Church; A Place Made Remote - By Agreed Untruth And Procedural Complexity, And By Tedium Itself - From The Risk Of Intense Public Involvement.

Madness Might Sometimes Give Access To A Kind Of Knowledge. But Was Not A Guarantee.

Poetry Has Been The Longest Pleasure Of My Life.

Nothing Creates Such Untruth In You As The Wish To Please.