Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.
"What do women want?" "They eat green salad and drink human blood."
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.