All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.