Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

I can write pretty much anywhere.