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).

Anthony Indelicato, Capo of the Bonanno family

John Sexton. Rice Field and Pine Forest. Japan, 1985