Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.