Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even? A growing thing whose stages of growth always went unnoticed ... Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. I looked, I saw, I understood, I felt, "That's that, where do we go from here? The role of art is to make a world which can be tolerated. Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: "You just change your attitude now please, young man." What the hell are they all looking for? A decent way to give it all over to the giver of it all, with thanks for the bother. What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. | 
