“Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.”
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What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.