We need not approve of the audience to crave its approval.
Oct 212016
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Oct 122016
Religion will persist forever because of reality’s stubborn refusal to accord with our primitive notions of justice.
Sep 282016
The novel often triumphs as a lived experience and always fails as a recollected one.
Sep 012016
Photographs do not steal your soul, only your memories.
Aug 172016
There is bad art about which one can say a good deal, and great art about which one can say nothing.
Jun 272016
The most pleasing aesthetic effect is the happy accident.
Jun 162016
At least you can deal with the devil; God just pushes everyone around.
Jun 152016
Celebrated mediocrity augurs obscure excellence.
Apr 292016
You can talk people into art, but you can’t talk them out of it.
Apr 252016
America’s religion is not Christianity; it is self-help.