“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 "Come and get me, copper!" sort. Or of some con artist needing helicopter gunships to bring… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
