There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.
“After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.”
“The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.”