A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.