A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

Music dissolves the straight and narrow.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

A crisis unmasks everyone.