Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.