I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to te….

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment..

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be ali….

I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy..

New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them..

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, ….

What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour p….

The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter ….

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser..

Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow? It was th….