Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.

For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.

High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.