The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

Fraud makes the world go round.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.