The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.