don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.