“It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes, [T.S. Eliot] wrote, who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.”

“Gertrudes remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word Woe, which she handed out gaily declaring, Woe is me.”

“There is only one thing left for you to do, John Sloan advised one artist. Pull off your socks and try with your feet.”

“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,”

“It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.”

“There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.”

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book tak...”

“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”

“The hippy movement was a failure.”

“There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.”