Why Wait For A Call When You

It Is The Nature Of Carnivores To Get Power And Then, Having Disposed Of Their Enemies, To Deploy The Emollient Powers Of Great Art To Make Themselves Look Like Herbivores.

The Point Of A Library's Existence Is Not Persuasion Or Evangelism, But Knowledge. It Is Irrelevant To The Good Library Whether, As An Institution, It Shares Or Promotes Your Core Values Or Mine, Or The Attorney General's Or Saddam Hussein's. The Library Is Always An Instrument Of Choice, And The Choice Is Always Yours, Not Your Elected Or Designated Leaders.

The Basic Project Of Art Is Always To Make The World Whole And Comprehensible, To Restore It To Us In All Its Glory And Its Occasional Nastiness, Not Through Argument But Through Feeling, And Then To Close The Gap Between You And Everything That Is Not You, And In This Way Pass From Feeling To Meaning. It's Not Something That Committees Can Do. It's Not A Task Achieved By Groups Or By Movements. It's Done By Individuals, Each Person Mediating In Some Way Between A Sense Of History And An Experience Of The World.

One Thing Is Sure: The Sagrada Familia Is The First Catholic Temple Whose Bacon Was Ever Saved By Shinto Tourism. Not Even Gaudi, Who Believed In Miracles, Could Have Forseen That.

The Greater The Artist, The Greater The Doubt.