The world is a crazy beautiful ugly complicated place and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away that's when this stuff comes.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.