Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.