"'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new."

"To conquer fear is to realize that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast."

"Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease."

"The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare."

"We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades."