“I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don'...” — Charles Saatchi Quote

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

I adore 'The Apprentice' but I always feel I shouldn't support reality shows when there's so much drama that ought to be being made. I feel particularly guilty enjoying 'Young Apprentice' because you're sneering at adolescents.

There's a huge adolescent side to me that I can't grow out of.

Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.

The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.