The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.