Crowds of people change everything. You can't be what you were when you're in a crowd of people. When other people see you in the crowd you're different than if you were standing on a stage, or apart. You take on their qualities, the qualities of strangers. And you leave and you're not the same anymore, either.
Cities are amazing.
Our relationships to cities are amazing. They are, by definition, nexus of capitalistic interests and artistic expressions, work and love. I think Apollinaire spearheaded a major change in the early 20th c. when he started to turn the city into a slightly desolate place of mystery and art, and later poets and artists such as de Chirico, Frank O'Hara, and Pierre Reverdy started to tap into the same ignored characteristics. So I think the first kids' book I write is going to be called Goodnight Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Okay, you don't have to think about it right now.