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

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.