We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles.

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, by which I mean pajamas.

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.

Situations spin out of control because care was not taken to carefully manage reality through desires.

The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we imagine.

Can't win without talent, you know.

the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?