Partly because his life ended before the age of 50 Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers and he managed with amazing consistency to alienate most of them.

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord which is consistent with the Gospel but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week let alone this year.

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara California Sunday 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

Health consists with temperance alone.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms but in mutual trust alone.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that from age to age nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.