As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.
I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

