one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.