“The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even if somebody gives you the National Gallery, your options are still very, very limited. Okay, you can sell… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
“The Mologai. The sun shines less in the Mologai, but heat gathers there in the shade and smoke. Steep cramped dwellings, shops oldish. Oddly, smoke pervading the whole area. The streets cling to contours. You clamber up steps from one… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
“Women are odd. I really mean that. A woman doesn't know the effect she has on a man. Any woman affects every man with… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point? Constancy isn't.” — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even if somebody… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“Affluence isn't affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else's affluence is mere tat. Until you've experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“America's phones are bliss. Their habit of actually working is very disconcerting: Put in a coin, and speak to whoever answers. I truly hope… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“That day, I started taking an interest in the bar's television. We always kept it on. As the hours slid by in a cacophony… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“Every inch of space was used. As the road narrowed, signs receded upwards and changed to the vertical. Businesses simply soared from ground level… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno, but if… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“The Theory of Sexual Understanding is mine. I created it. It works between a man and a woman. It's this: Everything's up to her.” — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art claims to be the largest in the western hemisphere. It's right, but I'm not too sure about the arts… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“The exhibition gobsmacked me. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Here was quite a small building, not many people about, getting little attention. And… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
“The risks in antiques fraud are relative. Other criminals risk the absolute. You've never heard of a fraudster involved in a shoot-out, of the… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share
