Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.

Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.