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01Undated

Maybe, life is a kind of waking dream.Maybe, it's a double-dream with a false awakening.Maybe, the dream only becomes lucid and truly luminous given the fuller perspective of life after one's own wake.Maybe, the pictures never stop.Doesn't the existence of dreams and higher consciousness during the years of blackouts of a lifetime, whether longer or shorter, give us a valid premise to hope that another highly spiritual state may await our passing?

David B. Lentz / quote

02Undated

I became the fractured shell of a mustard seed to dwell for an eye-blink amid a starburst galaxy of broken dreams.

David B. Lentz / quote

03Undated

The ability to find pixilation amid the pixelation is at the essence of the gift of celestial Grace.

David B. Lentz / quote

04Undated

The relentless persistence of Light eventually exhausts darkness.

David B. Lentz / quote

05Undated

New York had pushed and bent and bullied, driving me underground to sort out the madness and sculpt my Being with my own hands in self-discovery on its cold pottery wheel and in the white heat of its kiln. The City enabled me to learn who I really was, as a pixelated man and member of Humanity.

David B. Lentz / quote

06Undated

It's intriguing to observe so many of the outrageous prophecies, made with such biting satire years ago in the first edition, come into being through the craft of so many self-entitled egomaniacs running a global 'corpornation' for personal interest and professional profit. I had no idea then, as I now know, that I was writing with so much understatement. Honest outrage and political satire are two of the most important weapons that we have to protect infringement against our personal freedoms through oligarchy and to maintain any semblance of humanity in our democracy as our government aggressively privatizes and over-reaches at the expense of those millions whom it has sworn so dishonestly to serve and has utterly abandoned.

David B. Lentz / quote

07Undated

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

David B. Lentz / quote

08Undated

My best advice is never to address any woman as Madam unless she holds a high position in government or you happen to find yourself in a brothel speaking to its owner.

David B. Lentz / quote

09Undated

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

David B. Lentz / quote

10Undated

New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.

David B. Lentz / quote