"It is a subtle truth that to live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything."

"Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries."

"It is a humble truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things."

"I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw."

"The art of living is discovering that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology."