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

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.