Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.