Life for the European is a career; for the American, it is a hazard. - Mary McCarthy

We all know in our gut that art educates. In other societies, they're aware of the power it has of speaking directly to the masses, teaching them to be better socialists, better citizens. The trouble is that with us it's fallen into the wrong hands. Forget the speculators. I mean you proud possessors that claim to have a corner in it. This isn't the eighteenth century. The concept of the collector is so rotten by now that it stinks.

She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.

Thin women are more sensual; scientific fact — the nerve ends are closer to the surface.