“ Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word Woe, which she handed out gaily declaring, Woe is me. Ross Wetzsteon
“ As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other. Ross Wetzsteon
“ [I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds, Ross Wetzsteon
“ There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet. Ross Wetzsteon
“ It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent. Ross Wetzsteon
