"If I’m correct that Trump actually has a governing philosophy, that’s a bad thing, not a good thing. If he actually has principles to guide him through those famous swamps he plans to drain, that’s alarming, not reassuring. Bad principles are not a good substitute for no principles. Four or eight years of bad principles may make no principles look pretty good."

"Above all, do not join the wrong ideological groups or movements, in order to “do something.” By “ideological” , I mean groups or movements proclaiming some vaguely generalized, undefined political go…"

"It is impossible to understand Art and the glory of its history without avowing religious spirituality and the mythical roots that lead us to the very reason of being of the artistic phenomenon. Witho…"

"You can't get that feeling anywhere else. It's communion. It's like being washed away in the ocean, carried aloft on a wave."

"Reason...to suppose any production, worthy to be called a work of art, can be made without its use is foolish. ...By the use of reason many mistakes in design may be avoided and many counterfeits of a…"