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

I'm retiring because my time is up.

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

When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

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.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

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