Letter from your Mayor

• some of my favorite quotes:

  "It is better to be thought perverse than insincere."
  Samuel Richardson

  "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein

  "Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books — where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas". Langston Hughes

  "To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance." Jean Genet

  "Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does." Virginia Wolff

  "I kind of believe hygiene is the religion of fascism." Paul McCarthy

  "'Money won't change you, money won't change you, but time will take you on." James Brown

  "Is logic a lower form of magic?" Cecil Taylor

  "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." Charlie Chaplin

  "It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." Marlene Dietrich

  "If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" John Waters

  “I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake for I wake late) with the sun already up and in charge of the world, with little hope of anyone usurping or challenging its authority. A shot of light in the face of a poor waking human being and another slave limps wounded into the light-occupied territory.” Janet Frame, Daughter Buffalo

  “There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.” John Osborne

  "Fettered with the fetter of craving, beings conjoined go wandering & transmigrating on for a long, long time." Buddha