New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.