Seattle Is This Curious Liberal Island.

When I Want An Opinion, I'll Get It From My Peers - From Men Of Vision, Like Our Great Railroad Builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... Fellows With Imaginations Broad Enough To Span The Continent.

If We Live Inside A Bad Joke, It Is Up To Us To Learn, At Best And Worst, To Tell It Well.

I've Taught The Better Class Of Tourist Both To See And Not To See; To Lift Their Eyes Above And Beyond The Inessentials, And Thrill To Our Western Nature In Her Majesty.

I Ain't Sleeping. I'm Just Taking A Good Look At The Insides Of My Eyelids.

Critics? Don't Talk To Me Of Critics! You Think Some Jackanapes Journalist, His Soul Eaten Away By The Maggots Of Jealousy And Failure, Has Anything Worthwhile To Say Of Art? I Don't.