Michael Mehl

• This is a nation of immigrants. Any notion to the contrary is benightedly delusional.

• There’s a thing for everything.

• In societies that allow utopian constructs, intellect tends to be untethered by context. In dystopian formulations of society, context is what drives intellectual conceits. In both cases, the outcomes are extreme and fallible. Yet, of both, it is only dystopia that allows random quirks, fancies, and foibles, into its equational sequences.

• It is when ignorance colors judgement, that judgement can only distinguish black or white.

• Yo no niego la cruz de mi parroquia. Pero de hecho tengo muchas parroquias y no veo razón alguna para guardarle devoción a solo una.

• In the absence of grand gestures there are no magnificent failures, just the periodic petering-out of ineptitude.

• It’s surprising how general theories so frequently apply only to the most specific of circumstances.

• Celebrity for a cause invariably subjects any cause to the vagaries of celebrity.

• On its own, fortuitous circumstance is a weak foundation for sustainable enterprise.

• At the intersection of art and non-profit is where art becomes diminished.