Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. – Ambrose Bierce
Mammals: a family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. – Ambrose Bierce
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. – Ambrose Bierce
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. – Ambrose Bierce
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, the ability to conceive failure as progress. – Jerry Saltz