“We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.”
David Mamet
“The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony”
Paul Goodman
“The sinkhole made the property prohibitive.”
Ken Pritz
“The sinkhole was always there. It was just waiting for something to trigger it.”
Paul Pilny
“It's not really a typical sinkhole.”
Barry Pincin
“What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.”
Asia Argento
“Conversancy with Hegel tends to deprave one's intellect.”
John Stuart Mill