Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors - somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating - none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

Gore Vidal, who wrote Williwaw at only nineteen, was another whose early book could well have been his last, but instead he wrote a series of books that varied…

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are…

A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.

In twenty years from now, when people will look back at the 90's, they wont remember the commercial giants like Ace of Base or Backstreet Boys, they will remem…

The world is losing a great artist (dies).