On Polanski and Other Gods and Monsters – "But whatever comes next, I’m going to remember this Polanski episode as a crucible for my feeble romanticism about what artists do. I think I’ve forgotten that my love of a work involves leaps of faith for me, but not necessarily for its creator. Because you know [...]
"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -