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

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

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

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

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.

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.