Truthless

"Women receive
the insults of men
with tolerance,
having been bitten
in the nipple
by their toothless gums."
-- Dilys Laing

[pen, Photoshop]

Opera Mouth

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible." -- W.H. Auden

[water felt tip, mosaic, Photoshop]

Passage to Heaven

"I begin to see that a man’s got to be in his own heaven to be happy." -- Capt. Eli Stormfield (Mark Twain)
[ink on tracing paper, Photoshop]

Aardvarker

"They say 'aardvark' never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance." -- a Ronald Reagan variant
[felt tip, Photoshop]

Profile

"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own." -- W.H. Auden

[ink and paint, Photoshop]

Negation

"Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."-- E.M. Cioran
[vinyl paint on cel, scratch-off, Photoshop]

Sam

"A samurai without a sword is like a poet without a pen." -- D. Orlando
[blue pencil, Photoshop]