We go to Europe to be Americanized.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

Jim Lehrer

When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall flat.

Ronald P. Chavez

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

Ernest Hemingway

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.

Dag Hammarskjold

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

Hattie McDaniel

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

Humphrey Bogart

If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.

Jerry Saltz

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell

The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.

Stephen Richards

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Dale Carnegie