It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

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

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.

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

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.

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