Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.