Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.