Design Is Important Because Chaos Is So

I'm Well Beyond Dyslexic: I Have No Sense Of Direction; I Never Know Where I Am.

My Success Was The Shock Of Recognition, Probably, Rather Than The Quality Of The Work. I Mean, The Quality May Have Been Fine, But There's A Lot Of Fine Work Out There. It Was The Fact That I Was Doing Something That At That Time, Nobody Else Was Doing, Except For Say, Mort Saul Out In San Francisco On The Hungry Eye, And "second City" Was Emerging Out In Chicago. Nothing In Print. It Was Basically Happening In Cabaret And Nothing In Fiction. And Certainly Nothing In New York In Cartoons.

In The Depression, Besides Everybody Being Poor, Our Entertainment Was Much More Primitive And Innocent. The Comic Strip, Which I So Venerated, Was Still A Very New Form. Movies Had Just Become Talkies. Radio Had Just Gone Coast To Coast For The First Time. Network Radio Had Just Begun When I Was A Kid. So All Of These Forms Were More Or Less In Their Infancy, And Feeling Their Oats. Comics Were Fresh And Funny And Nervy, And In A Sense, Defiant Of The Prevailing Culture.

I Think A Play Can Do Almost Anything, Because It's Also A Static Form, Much More So Than In A Movie. In A Movie You Can Move The Scenery, You Can Do Anything Any Way. A Cartoon, Happens In A Limited Amount Of Space And A Limited Amount Of Time, And You Can Only Get So Many Words Before The Reader's Gonna Get Impatient. All Of These Forms That I Enjoy Are In A Sense A Slight Of Hand, Where You Have To Suggest Much More Than You Really Show. You Have To, In A Sense, Seduce The Reader And Trick The Reader Or The Audience Into Going With You.

The City Keeps Reinventing Itself. And Each Generation Thinks, As They Enter It, That They've Missed The Best Of It, And Then They Become The Authors Of The Next "best." And So It Goes On And On And On. And New York Keeps Redefining Itself And Reinventing Itself, And Then You Look At It And It's Pretty Much The Way It Was Back In The 1920's., Or In The 1930's. Something Stylistically Different In Some Ways, But It's Still Got The Same Vitality.