One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks. Small lights bloom like a sea of candles. Even this rain will never put them all out.