Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them. A few years ago, I was thinking about this, and I went to "The Sunday Sport," a tabloid newspaper I don't recommend you start reading if you're not familiar with it already.

The dirty little secret is that you don’t have to be a nice person to be a great artist.

事实并不能自证清白。它们支持或者反对不同的理论。而脱离理论或者信念的事实不过是孤立的好奇心而已。