Awards Don't Really Mean Much.

It Must Be Noted That It Is Often The Colleague Or Direct Disciple Of A New Thinker Who Gets Stuck In Literal Interpretations Of The Work, Tending To Freeze The New Ideas And Language Into An Inflexible, Static Condition.

I Have Disassociated Myself From That Book.

Since The Time Of The Ancient Greeks A Democracy Has Depended On Its Philosophers And Creative Artists. It Can Only Flourish By Continuous Probing, Prodding, And Questioning Of The Social Conditions Under Which Man Exists And Tries To Better Himself. One Of The First Moves Of A Dictatorship Is To Stifle The Artists And Thinkers Who Have The Ability To Stir Up Dissent From Any Prescribed Dogma Which Might Enslave Them. Because The Artist Can Arouse The Curiosity And Conscience Of His Community, He Becomes A Threat To Those Who Have Taken Power.

No Work Of Art Is Ever Finished, Nothing Is Ever Static, No Performance Is For Keeps.

For Some Strange Reason, We Believe That Anyone Who Lived Before We Were Born Was In Some Peculiar Way A Different Kind Of Human Being From Any We Have Come In Contact With In Our Own Lifetime. This Concept Must Be Changed; We Must Realize In Our Bones That Almost Everything In Time And History Has Changed Except The Human Being.