I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriatin…

- Stephen Metcalf

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

- Stephen Metcalf

Any method by which you get to see things that you haven't seen before hones your practiced ability to make connections.

- Stephen Metcalf

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

- Stephen Metcalf

Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.

- Stephen Metcalf