Metal jaw piece by Shaun Leane for Alexander McQueen, photographed by Donna Trope

Fog-and-Smog-Bound Evening, Central London, 1924

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
― Honoré de Balzac

Nude Descending a Staircase, Gjon Mili, 1949

Jennifer Cantwell, Letter home, 2011

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

- Thomas Paine

- Emil Cioran, Positivity Culture

Joni Mitchell, skating on Lake Mendota, Madison, WI, Joel Bernstein, 1976

Andy Feltham

A pastel sunset over Tresor Berlin, Leipziger Str. - 2003

“As long as truths do not cut into our flesh with knives, we retain a secret contempt for them.”
—Daybreak, §460 (excerpt).