Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
-Paul Guaguin

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
-Philip Johnson

I passionately hate the idea of being "with it", I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
-Orson Welles

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right ( Read more... )

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit ( Read more... )

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

In all human endeavors, something inevitably goes woefully wrong.

The night is a kingdom of predators, in which every hunter is also the hunted.

Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

___To say that I am living on borrowed time would be not merely a cliche but also an understatement. My entire life has been a heavily mortgaged enterprise ( Read more... )

The background on my cell phone is a picture he sent me...
He was on the road again, driving through Oklahoma...
He sent me a picture of the sunrise.

I still have the voicemail he left me...
I keep listening to it...
Over and over.

I can't stop crying...

Rest in peace, Tony.