Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.