Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.