 America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. |
| On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe. |
| It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. |
| Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores. |
| Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions. |
| A cult is a religion with no political power. |
| We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past. |
| The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. |
| 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. |
| We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. |
| Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting. |
| There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit. |
| Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. |
| At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan. |
| The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. |
| In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. |
| A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. |
| There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. |
| This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. |
| Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best. |
