What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady. It didn't occur to anyone to worry about the manner in which a photograph was taken.

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.