Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.