It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

All literature is gossip.

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy.

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.