It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2010) - ISBN: 9780857203724