The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.
I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.
The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.
See the moon? It hates us.
I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.