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

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

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

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.