I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.