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

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

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.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

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

If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determined by how hard you are willing to work.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.