Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

I feel overestimated.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.