Stephen Metcalf quotes:

I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.

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

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

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

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