Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
John UpdikeProfessionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
John Updike