US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.

I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present.

I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the normalization, I think it's very promising. But I do think there are some worrisome aspects.

I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.

The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.

Don't be a slave to society!

One of the best roads to self-improvement is acceptance of personal mistakes and correcting them as soon as possible.

Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.

Her beauty is a mastery of peace.

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.

Trust is important in any relationship, not just a romantic one.

Living in regret will become your biggest regret.

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.