It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

Stephen Sondheim
New York, New York, USA
March 22, 1930

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos, and certainly puzzles. The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is you know there is a solution. I also like murder mysteries for the same reason. Again, the puzzle murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it’s all going to be neatly wound up at the end and everything’s going to make logical sense. I think that’s why murder mysteries are popular, is this defense against chaos.

Stephen Sondheim
Academy of Achievement
Interview July 5, 2005

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