Success is like death. The more successful you become the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

When I was in high school my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!

Well honey I had the million dollar houses I had the car I had the horse I had the barn I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful rarely comfortable and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes in galleries on the walls of auction houses and off the walls in museum storage.