Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

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