[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.

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Gertrude’s 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.

Marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.

We do things we’re not proud of. Nikolas more than most.

A fugitive on the run with a plan for the future is the definition of hubris.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Britannia High is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

Everybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

For every sad thing you think of, you should think of three happy things to chase it away.

The fact is that when you talk about Mujib [Rahiman], everything seems so incredible. I don't understand how the world can take him seriously.