There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as "mushy.

Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.