The pitted red clay and worn inscriptions are reminiscent of the exhumed detritus of many an overreaching empire

“When the iron door was opened, sounds peculiar to jails and prisons poured into my ears — the screams, the metallic clanging, officers’ keys clinking. Some of the women noticed me and smiled warmly or threw up their fists in gestures of solidarity”

The drawings become anti-targets, a record of pitchers striving to avoid the bull's-eye that any major leaguer could park in the bleachers.

“No less than Charlie Chaplin, its only pop rival for the affection of Jazz Age aesthetes, Krazy Kat synthesized a particular mixture of sweetness and slapstick, playful fantasy and emotional brutality.”

"Legs, you asshole," I said. "I am not doing this story on you. I am not taking the responsibility for making you famous."

“Apart from Robert Rauschenberg, trim as a biscuit in a light tan velvet suit, no prominent artists were present for the much touted Scull sale at the Parke-Bernet galleries last week”

“Dennis Hopper was followed into dinner by Pee­wee Herman, Debi Mazar, Ann Bass, John Richardson, Michael Chow, and John Wa­ters, each receiving a commemorative Andy Warhol Museum watch from a volunteer who murmured, 'Here's your 15 minutes.' ”

“A Coke is a Coke,” Warhol once said, “and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

When a comics master reviewed a comic "book" in the Voice

“James Warren, founder and publisher of ‘Famous Monsters,’ developed an overactive imagination because his parents left him alone all day.”