Thursday, January 13, 2011

Cathy Hornyn's NYT article "Pushing Fashion Boundaries in an Era Without Any"...

...found here, brings to mind this 1975 quote from novelist Philip Roth:

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters.