He's the Man
This about writing and perfection (among other things) uttered by Leonard Cohen in the course of the recent film about him, I'm Your Man:
"If it is your destiny to be this laborer called a writer, you've got to go to work everyday. But you also know you're not going to get it every day. You have to be prepared but you really don't command the enterprise. Sometimes when you no longer see yourself as a hero of your own drama, expecting victory after victory, then you understand deeply that this is not paradise, and somehow we're—especially the privileged ones—we somehow embrace the notion that this veil of tears, that it's not perfectable, that you're going to get it all straight. I've found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win."
