I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.

Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win

But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.