There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

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

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

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.

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

On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.