I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.
As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.
Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.