“Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off.”

Speaking to the Council for National Policy http://cfnp.org/page.aspx?pid=360

Vol. XI, p. 242
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Context: When death comes, it does not ask your permission; it comes and takes you; it destroys you on the spot. In the same way, can you totally drop hate, envy, pride of possession, attachment to beliefs, to opinions, to ideas, to a particular way of thinking? Can you drop all that in an instant? There is no “how to drop it”, because that is only another form of continuity. To drop opinion, belief, attachment, greed, or envy is to die — to die every day, every moment. If there is the coming to an end of all ambition from moment to moment, then you will know the extraordinary state of being nothing, of coming to the abyss of an eternal movement, as it were, and dropping over the edge — which is death. I want to know all about death, because death may be reality; it may be what we call God — that most extraordinary something that lives and moves and yet has no beginning and no end.

Source: City of Bones

Phoenix Theatre, Toronto, Ontario; September 1, 1994
Stage banter

ibid

Source At the Jazz Corner of the World, Blue Note, 1959.

Rahul Gandhi says politics is in your shirt, in your pants, Rahul Gandhi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyjNNfNER1I

Source: Last Stand of Dead Men

Source: Cold Days