"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
Establish enigmas, not explanations.
For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control
Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
If you ask people (as I often do) how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.
When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbors, because in them we serve Jesus.
Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.