“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.”
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I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
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.
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
