I think that New York is not the cultural center of America, but the business and administrative center of American culture.

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means …

Same thing happened in the Punk Movement in the late 70's. It's like, major labels were signing punk bands right after the band's first gig, y'know, a punk ban…

The average English critic is a don manque, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in…

I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. T…