The Job Of Art Is To Chase

I Have Learned To Interface - What I Think Would Be The Contemporary Term - With Various Different Lexicons, And People Speak Very Different Languages. I've Learned To Speak In A Lot Of Tongues, And I Can Live With The Bellicose Language Of Some Fervent, Fire-breathing Christians, Sure.

Happy The Country That Lives On Nothing But Its Wits; Cursed Be The One That Thinks It Can Get Rich By Planting Or Digging Or Drilling For Wealth.

I Get To Hear The Really Good Or The Really Bad Things In The Press, But I Don't Read It. I Can Afford To Say That Because Public Opinion Does Not Drive U2's Audience.

Sadly, I Do My Homework. I've A Soft Spot For The Boring Minutiae. I Read The Charter Of The United Nations Before Meeting With Kofi Annan. I Read The Meltzer Report, And Then I'll Read C. Fred Bergsten's Defense Of Institutions Like The World Bank And The I.m.f. It's Embarrassing To Admit.

I Used To Love Kurt Cobain, When He Was Telling People We're A Pop Band. People Would Laugh, They Thought Of It As Good Old Ironic Kurt. But He Wasn't Being Ironic.