Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.
Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
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.
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.