Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? D o the sewers make money? It's a community service.
You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country. . . But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.
The sewer is the conscience of the city.