I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon.

There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.

On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?

Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

We talk often about being in a media-saturated society, and we are surrounded by image streams. But it's nihilistic. There's a real randomness to all of it.

He liked the way her smile infected him and infused a bit of heat into his cold bones—a warmth missing until he'd opened the door to her flower shop.

I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.

Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.

[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.