“I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy vote...” — Jackie Kennedy Quote

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

I want to live my life, not record it.

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.