Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.
When people talk about people being left behind - middle wages have not gone up for years, and we should recognize that, and there I think we need growth and skills - but there are these other people who have been left behind. When I say out loud, "Fifty percent of inner-city schoolkids do not graduate from high school," that is a national catastrophe. We should be ringing the alarm bells. It's not fair.
I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.
Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.