Anyway, I was in Israel as a kind of cultural ambassador and there were lots of press conferences scheduled around the performances. The journalists usually started things off by asking about the avant-garde.
— So, what’s so good about new? they’d ask.
— Well, new is… interesting.
— And what, they would say, is so good about interesting?
— Well, interesting is, you know… it’s… interesting. It’s like… being awake, you know, I’m treading water now.
— And what is so good about being awake? they’d say.
Finally I got the hang of this: never answer a question in Israel, always answer by asking another question.
(l.Anderson)