Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. . . I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.
You [Hillary Clinton] are going to approve one of the biggest tax cuts in history.
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L. A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.
Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.
Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.