Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

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

High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)

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

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.