You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material and that's a creepy thing to do.
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what...
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends...
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning that creates the...
Two obsessions are the hallmarks of Nature's artistic style.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not...
Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her...