Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.
In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.
I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.