An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.