Broadway, such as I see it now and have seen it for twenty- five years, is a ramp that was conceived by St. Thomas Aquinas while h...e was yet in the womb. It was meant originally to be used only by snakes and lizards, by the horned toad and the red heron, but when the great Spanish Armada was sunk the human kind wriggled out of the ketch and slopped over, creating by a sort of foul, ignominious squirm and wiggle the cunt-like cleft that runs from the Battery south to the golf links north through the dead and wormy center of Manhattan Island.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Known commonly as the jackass, this long-eared little creature is respected throughout the southwest--roundly cursed yet respected...--and here he is usually referred to by his Spanish name, burro. Because of his extraordinary bray, he is sometimes ironically called the "Arizona Nightingale."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The French courage proceeds from vanity--the German from phlegm--the Turkish from fanaticism & opium--the Spanish from pride--the ...English from coolness--the Dutch from obstinacy--the Russian from insensibility--but the Italian from anger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by... one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don't understand how you can live there. It's really, completely dead. Walk al...ong the street, there's nothing moving. I've lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren't as boring as Los Angeles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »