In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.