Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam War, the phrase body count entered our vocabulary. It is an ambiguous phrase, inorganic, even faintly sporty. It distanced us from the painful reality of corpses, of dead, mutilated people.
Paula FoxThe minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.
Paula FoxLiterature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
Paula Fox