For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.
I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.