1.   As a planner, he works with the messy reality of modern cities and highways, without retreating from the chaos to build gemlike forms.

2.   As Pakistan demonstrates, messy reality is something else.

3.   That abstracts you away from the very messy reality of what drove that night.

4.   The artist is supposed to find a way into the realm of the imagination and, there, transmute messy quotidian reality into coherent sublime beauty.

5.   The messy reality lies somewhere in between.