Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. ... The losses piled up.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.

Holiness on earth is a spiritual fantasy.

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'