A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

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

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

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wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism