Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.