I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

"Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.