It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

your are my life.. and my life is yours..

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help!

I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.