I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.

I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.