The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality.

Since we have free will, we create our own reality and virtually everything is negotiable.

Unlike Churchill I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.

Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.