Debate is never advanced by insulting your opponent. Once the constraints of courtesy and decency are abandoned, the conversation cannot continue. That is why truly ‘creative’ artists are forever respectful of those things that, in their private moments, they may consider ridiculous.

Debate is never advanced by insulting your opponent. Once the constraints of courtesy and decency are abandoned, the conversation cannot continue. That is why truly ‘creative’ artists are forever respectful of those things that, in their private moments, they may consider ridiculous.