Caroline Mays

Art critic and writer Robert Hughes reminds us that the closer you get to excellence, the more you notice what is missing:

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

Writer Gertrude Stein's definition of genius: somebody who knows who to be influenced by.

I was a huge fan of the comic journalist Ronson, and his book Them

What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.

“Montaigne, the great French philosopher, adopted these seventeen words as the motto of his life: ‘A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.’ And our opinion of what happens is entirely up to us.”