destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.