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

You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

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.

The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.