Art Can Excite, Titillate, Please, Entertain, And

The Curse Of The Romantic Is A Greed For Dreams, An Intensity Of Expectation That, In The End, Diminishes The Reality.

Certain Kinds Of People Become Republicans And Certain Kinds Of People Become Democrats, And ... It's More Than A Matter Of Party Affiliation. It's A Way Of Thinking And Being.

The Overwhelming Majority Of People Who Are Engaged In The Processes Of Thought And Expression Are Democrats Because The Essence Of Thought Is Exploration And Diversity And Change. It's Impossible To Have Vision In Art Or Government Without Risk, Or The Boldness And Courage Which Produce Risk. And This - In Spite Of What They Call Modern Republicanism - Is The Antithesis Of True Republican Thinking.

Generosity With Strings Is Not Generosity: It Is A Deal.

The New York Voice Reflects Its Diversity, Its Foreignness, And, Inevitably, The Sense Of Superiority New Yorkers Feel Or Come To Feel. It Says, Without Saying, We Know.