Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.