Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. - Norman Mailer

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.

Israel is the heart of all nations.” It was the conscience and the raw exposed nerve; all emotion passed through it. But it was more than that; it was the heart that suffered whenever any part of the body was ill.

As the Maestro is never loath to tell us, a human who suffers from too much ambition succeeds only in exemplifying the Creator’s own lack of anticipation. The D.K., wishing His Vision to be innovative, had created the human will as an instinct all but free of Him. Once again, God had miscalculated.